Sunday, July 17, 2011

Are Moses and Sargon of Akkad's stories similar to some degree?

Mesopotamian religion has still an influence on the modern world, predominantly because much Biblical stories that's today found in Christianity, shares some overlapping consistency with much older ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular, the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood, Tower of Babel and mythical Biblical characters such as Nimrod and Lilith (the Assyrian Lilitu). In addition, the story of Moses' origins shares a striking similarity with that of Sargon of Akkad, and the Ten Commandments mirror older Assyrian-Babylonian legal codes to some degree.

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