21 Dec 2022 5:58 am
The Gilgamesh 'Flood Story' was written 1,000 years BEFORE the Hebrew Bible 'Flood Story'.
So, other things may have been 'borrowed' from other cultures to form the Hebrew Bible.
'Eye for an Eye' came from the Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon.
The 'Eve Story' may be based on the 'Pandora's Box Story', from the Greeks.
Zoroaster may have influenced the Hebrew Bible:
"Zoroaster was a prophet of ancient Persia, whose teachings laid the foundation for the religion known as Zoroastrianism, which largely dominated the land of Iran until the arrival of Islam after the fall of the Sassanian Empire. Whilst this figure is known as Zoroaster in the West (being derived from the Greek ‘Zoroastres’), he is referred to as Zarathustra in Avestan. The teachings found in Zoroastrianism have been compared to those of the Abrahamic faiths, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and it has been suggested that the former had a strong influence on the latter."
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history ... ers-007684