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The Primeval Histories of Greece and Israel Compared

Comparison between the primeval history of Genesis 1-11 and the traditions of Mesopotamia, äs reflected in Atrahasis, Enuma Elish, Gilgamish, and the Sumerian King List, have received a great deal of attention in recent years, particularly äs they relate to creation, the antediluvian ancestors, and the flood story. And rightly so, for they reflect an important eastern influence upon the development in Israel of its accounts of primeval history. But it is altogether too one-sided to suggest that this is the only significant body of foreign influence upon such traditions. There was also an important western component to the primeval history, mediated no doubt through the Canaanite-Phoenician civilization but reflected now in the extant texts of ancient Greece. Comparative study of Greek and Israelite traditions have been discredited in the past because of some efforts to find Mycenaen connections between the Homeric tradition and early Israel by way of Ugarit. However, the time has come for a new look at the traditions about primeval history in Greece and Israel which will, I believe, yield some rather surprising results.