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To: The Right Stuff
"Although many "creation" and "flood" myths are similar, don't the Hebrew ones predate them all?
Ditto with the virgin or godly inspired birth (see Leda and the swan in Greek mythology) "

No. No. and No.
2 posted on 09/02/2003 6:04:09 PM PDT by NotQuiteCricket (tra-tra-la-la)
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To: NotQuiteCricket
No, there are creation and flood epics older than the Hebrew, on which the Hebrew myths were based.
118 posted on 12/27/2003 6:10:44 PM PST by dinodino
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To: NotQuiteCricket
No, the Sumerian and Babylonian myths predate the Hebrew.
123 posted on 12/27/2003 6:37:28 PM PST by dljordan
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