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Appearing in late 1800AD, Panbabylonism was developed by several European scholars and historians such as Friedrich Delitzsch, Fritz Hommel, Eduard Stucken, Hugo Winckler, Peter Jensen, Felix Peiser, Heinrich Zimmern, Alfred Jeremias and Ferdinand Bork that many of the stories from the Old Testament specifically the Book of Genesis originated from the religion, mythology and history of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians who lived in the Mesopotamia Valley from 5500BC to 220AD.…

Review of Literature: Origin Stories Across Cultures Origin stories have been prevalent for centuries and even before the religion of Christianity. Jerimiah Curtin defines origin stories as “the detailed and circumstantial account of the world and all the things and creatures contained in it” (Curtin ix). However, the Christian Bible is a primary source for it has similar correlations to many origin stories and is well-known around the world. The book of Genesis is the first of the Christian…