Sentences with phrase «babylonian creation account»

A guest speaker to that class was our senior paster who held a degree in astrophysics and who wrote a thesis on the Babylonian creation account.

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This first creation account, known as the Priestly, or «P» account, was written during the Babylonian captivity.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).