Gen 1 came from 1 tribe probably were redacted together, which led to two different creation narratives. As the Enuma Elish shares many parts with Gen 1, which means the Israelite took some their creation from stories they had heard before. Hauer and Young say “The Israelites used the combat creation theme as a poetic metaphor, but not in their creation narratives. Their creation account do, however share common motifs with their cultural matrix.”(Hauer and Young 55) Gen 1 drew from other creation narratives. Gen 2,3 was written with the purpose of creating a split between humans and God whereas Gen 1 is very optimistic story Professor Carol Meyers, “ points out that from the standpoint of the Torah, the Garden of Eden story is an arhcype. It shows people behaving rebellious towards God, a bad human trait turn up all to frequently”(Hauer and Young 56) This story was created to serve the purpose of showing the pitfalls of disobeying God and how it can lead to a downfall. Though all these stories are very different Enuma Elish and Gen 1 drew parts from each other and Gen 2-3 helps push a story narrative of not disobeying
Gen 1 came from 1 tribe probably were redacted together, which led to two different creation narratives. As the Enuma Elish shares many parts with Gen 1, which means the Israelite took some their creation from stories they had heard before. Hauer and Young say “The Israelites used the combat creation theme as a poetic metaphor, but not in their creation narratives. Their creation account do, however share common motifs with their cultural matrix.”(Hauer and Young 55) Gen 1 drew from other creation narratives. Gen 2,3 was written with the purpose of creating a split between humans and God whereas Gen 1 is very optimistic story Professor Carol Meyers, “ points out that from the standpoint of the Torah, the Garden of Eden story is an arhcype. It shows people behaving rebellious towards God, a bad human trait turn up all to frequently”(Hauer and Young 56) This story was created to serve the purpose of showing the pitfalls of disobeying God and how it can lead to a downfall. Though all these stories are very different Enuma Elish and Gen 1 drew parts from each other and Gen 2-3 helps push a story narrative of not disobeying