This means there was several hundred years where what is now written in the bible existed as oral traditions. By around 1000 BC, written language was developed and people thought it important to write down oral traditions that were passed down from generation-to-generation.2 Through historical critical method, biblical scholars interpret ancient texts against the background of what we know of their historical settings. ... Different authors, in different time periods, addressing people of their time and sharing different traditions is why there are two different accounts of Genesis. ...

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The second account of Creation originated in the ancient oral culture. ... Parts of the oral tradition are gradually written down. Throughout history, people collect and edit oral and written traditions. ...

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Topic: Parallels between Gilgamesh and Genesis Looking at two different texts from different time periods and finding similarities in them can help bridge cultural lines. There are many identifiable parallels between the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh and the Biblical book of Genesis. By looking at...

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There has to have been an event that lead to an oral tradition because most of all the early civilizations have a story that includes a worldwide flood. With things such as this one then must wonder if the biblical account was written first and the other accounts learned from this, or if the biblical account was written after people knew of the other traditions. ...

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According to early Jewish tradition, God dictated the entire book to Moses on Mt. ... Tullock describes the introduction of the ten genealogies as: 2:4 the heavens and the earth. 5:1 Adam. 6:9 Noah. 10:1 Noah's sons. 11:10 Shem. 11:27 Terah [the father of Abram (Abraham)]. 25:12 Ishmael 25:19 Isaac 36:1 Esau (This line about Esau is repeated in 36:9) 37:2 Jacob (38) Genesis begins with the story of creation and is based largely on the oral traditions passed down over the years. ... This oral tradition story attempts to explain how all the different languages came int...

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