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Atrahasis And Joseph's Death In The Book Of Genesis

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Although scientists may never figure out and agree to exactly when the earth and its inhabitants were created, the time from Abraham to Joseph’s death in Genesis 50:26 may be associated with the Middle Bronze Age (1500 to 1200 BC) or Iron Age (1200 to 1000 BC). Much of the setting of Genesis was within the Fertile Crescent, the land of Canaan, and ended in Egypt. During this period in the ancient Near East, many works of literature were produced in nearby nations with stories similar to deities creating the world and later causing a flood because the people were “bad” (most notably Atrahasis and the Gilgamesh Epic). As such texts were written well before the book of Genesis, it is fascinating how Genesis was penned in a pagan manner, in seeing
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