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Why are numerous major Biblical events so similar to contemporary and historical mythology?

Answered by . August 29, 2011 - 11:52 am 1

By the end of the 19th century archaeology had discovered many Mesopotamian texts containing creation and flood narratives remarkably similar to those in the Bible. Critical scholars came to believe that the Biblical narratives had simply been copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths.[1][2] The Biblical flood narrative in particular is still considered by some scholars to […]