Mesopotamian Vs Babylonian Mythology Essay

The differences mainly revolve around the theme of forgiveness and blame. In the Judo-Christian version of the Adam and Eve story, many tend to blame Eve for deceiving Adam into eating the forbidden fruit. For deceiving Adam, Eve is given the harsh curse of having to bare children due to disobeying God’s word. However, in the Quran, Hawa does not deceive Adam into eating the apple. Satan interacts with Adam instead of Hawa in the Quran and rather than Hawa eating the fruit first then later giving it to Adam, it is assumed that they both ate the forbidden fruit together. Thus, these texts show translations and version of which might be the same story. It is not explicitly stated that the Mesopotamian literature is a concrete representation
However, the texts show various similarities and due to the Mesopotamian texts being more ancient than the biblical texts, the Sumerian and Babylonian mythological literature may have influenced the story of Adam and Eve that is later written in the
Thus, this demonstrates the names may have been chosen carefully by God to represent a deeper meaning. Thus, the redactions of the Creation story show the specific verses and words that were changed through the J and E source. The last methodological step that will be used for the Creation story is genre. There are several biblical genres which certain biblical books fall under. The Book of Genesis would be considered in the genre of historical narrative. According to Fee and Stuart, “[n]arratives are stories—purposeful stories retelling the historical events of the past that are intended to give meaning and direction for a given people in the present” (90). The beginning of the Genesis is a story about how the world was created by God. Historical narratives describe past events to the reader using characters, plot and plot resolution. In the creation story, God would be the protagonist, the serpent would be the antagonist and lastly, Adam and Eve would be the agonists who were torn between the conflict created by the serpent. The plot, as previously discussed revolves around God’s creation and God’s creation of man in his image. However, Satan