Or was there just Egyptian Mythology before Abraham started his little story?
2006-06-11 07:43:42 · 3 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Q-Ball-Intresting...I'll have to look up Edom
2006-06-16 08:45:35 · update #1
oh no, there were the canaanite religions.
they worshiped various gods like ishtar and baal.
they believed in the story of gilgamesh.
they built step-like temples.
its not as popular as the egyptian religion, but they did have lots in common.
2006-06-11 07:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by Aleks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact Abraham was not the founder of Judaism but rather what has now become Christianism. Abraham is the founding father of the Aramaic tribe, where as Edom is the ancestor of the modern Jewish tribe - two different tribal units. There were a number of religious sects operating before Abraham's existence, the chief ones being the Egyptian Pharoismic Priesthood with deities such as Sethi Ram and the Pharaoh as God-King; and the Babylonian Baal worshipers.
2006-06-11 14:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were thousands of religions that predated Judaism.
Pagans tended to worhip local deities, and no one really knows how many "religions" there were.
The primary reason the Roman Empire invented the Universal religion was to consolidate all those religions into one.
2006-06-11 14:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋