Origins of Judaism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article discusses the historical roots of Judaism throughout the 1st millennium BCE. For the origins of the modern-day religion of Judaism, see Origins of Rabbinic Judaism. The origins of Judaism according to the current historical view, lie in the Bronze Age amidst polytheistic ancient Semitic religions, specifically […]
Origins Of The Hebrew Bible
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Sumerian religion Wall plaque showing libations by devotees and a naked priest, to a seated god and a temple. Ur, 2500 BCE.[1][2] Part of a series on Ancient Mesopotamian religion Religions of the ancient Near East Anatolia Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Babylonia Sumer Persia Semitic Arabia Canaan […]
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Sumerian religion Wall plaque showing libations by devotees and a naked priest, to a seated god and a temple. Ur, 2500 BCE.[1][2] Part of a series on Ancient Mesopotamian religion Religions of the ancient Near East Anatolia Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Babylonia Sumer Persia Semitic Arabia Canaan […]
Is a lot of the Torah/Old Testament based on ancient Sumerian mythology?
James Liang , M.S. in Forensic Science from University of New Haven (2020) Updated April 9, 2020 A very important question indeed! Since the discovery of ancient Mesopotamian/Sumerian tablets in the 1850s containing mythological creation stories, many of which share uncanny similarities with the narrative from the early chapters of Genesis, liberal scholars have jumped at the […]
People use a 7‑day week because they have been born into a world where this is customary.
Wherever the Common Era Calendar (a.k.a. the Gregorian Calendar) is used — and it is now used by the governments of all countries — a week of seven days is also used in conjunction with it. But there is no 7‑day cycle in Nature from which this could have been derived, so why a week […]
EIGHTEEN: THE HEBREW BIBLE: Conclusion and summary
Conclusion and summary The Hebrew Bible underwent a long period of elaboration and redaction extending over many centuries before finally achieving canonical status in the first and second centuries CE. It was an extraordinarily long period of gestation and along the way the text mutated according to the social and environmental circumstances it experienced. Much […]