Comparative Mythology
Scholarship in comparative mythology provides historical and cross-cultural perspectives for Christian mythology, including Mesopotamian creation myths that parallel Genesis. Both sources behind the Genesis creation narrative borrowed themes from Mesopotamian mythology, but adapted them to their belief in one God, establishing a monotheistic creation in opposition to the polytheistic creation myth of Israel's historic enemy, Babylon.
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