web links are appreciated.
This is for a Sunday School class. I would like to get the text/summary of the text as well as any possible charts comparing the stories.
2007-05-01 07:22:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you have access to a college/state library, look for James B. Pritchard's "Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament" (unfortunately this is not available online). This is a priceless resource that points you to parallels in the Ancient Near East. Creation accounts for the Mediterannean (Roman or Greek) or other localities will need to be found elsewhere. Frankly, the standard of creation accounts is the Bible and the Babylonian epic. Not sure that you need to look beyond this book for what you are doing.
2007-05-01 07:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ben 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a book, "The Oxford Companion To World Mythology" written by David Leeming, you will find several creation stories you can compare. It might help you. Good luck with your Sunday School Class.
2007-05-01 07:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by redmarc316 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly doubt a christian Sunday school will let you teach alternative creation stories!
But here is the original flood story that the christians/jews hijacked from ancient Babylonian texts.
2007-05-01 07:27:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can think of two offhand. Sumerian texts like the Enuma Elish, Egyptian texts like the Egyptian Book of the Dead come to mind. You can find them on the Internet easily. Happy hunting.
2007-05-01 08:10:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for you! One is called "Iblis" which closely resembles the Adam and Eve story, but with some differences...it is much older than the Bible version. No apple.
2007-05-01 07:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by dissolute_chemical 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi JC! Try this one:
http://www.meta-religion.com/HomeEnglish.htm
It is a huge and intensive site. I would look under the World Religions section.
2007-05-01 07:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by Medusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you will accompanied your very own suggestion to examine up on the hyperlinks, you will have got here across that "Adam" became basically one among numerous men on the comparable time and there is not any patrilinear line returned to a unmarried guy from which all men arose. So, NO, this is not the Adam and Eve of the Bible. BTW, the Torah speaks of a time in the past Adam and Eve - examine the tale of Lilith.
2017-01-09 06:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~creation2.html
2007-05-01 07:25:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try here
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
2007-05-01 07:26:50 · answer #9 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋