ANE Literature Episodes

The first and primary parallel flood accounts to Genesis are the flood stories from Mesopotamia.  Seeing how close these stories are to the narrative in Genesis will give us plenty to discuss in the future, and this will also help us investigate the question of the "many" flood accounts of the anci…

Reading ancient literature can help us understand the Bible.  Following on from the conversation in episode 7 about how to read myth in relation to the Bible, this episode includes a reading of the Babylonian creation account known as Enuma Elish. A bonus question at the beginning of the episode: …