Ancient text
Enuma Elish
A Babylonian composition on seven tablets narrating a conflict among divine beings and the ordering of the cosmos, including the division of waters and the formation of the sky.
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Document
Source- Culture
- Babylonian
- Language
- Akkadian
- Approximate date
- Second millennium BCE
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- in_review
Relationships to biblical passages
Interpretationcosmological parallelSimilarity only
Both open with a state prior to ordered creation and proceed to the separation of waters and the establishment of the heavens. The seven-tablet structure has been noted alongside the seven-day structure of Genesis 1. These are formal and thematic correspondences; no dependence is claimed.
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