Behind | Creation Myths

As you may already know, the creation account in Genesis is not the only creation story in the ancient Near East. There were creation myths circulating in written form at least as early, or even earlier, than the Genesis account. How do we make sense of that?

We’ll talk about some of the most well known Mesopotamian myths, like Gilgamesh and Atrahasis, when we discuss the Flood. For now let’s join the lecture to look at a few other extra-biblical parallels. First, we’ll discuss parallels in the Mesopotamian tradition and then the Egyptian tradition.