The Story of Genesis and Atrahasis

The Mesopotamian Enuma Elish and Atrahasis are both a thousand years older than the Hebrew Bible. They tell of the creation of the world, a war between the oldest gods and their grandchildren, and the role that the great Babylonian god Marduk played in this conflict. Since the mid-19th century, the elaborate parallels between these two stories have been studied by distinguished Assyriologists and staunch fundamentalists alike. In the remainder of this episode, we're going to look at first the Enuma Eish and next the Atrehasis.