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It's more fundamental than that. The jewish god is just zeus stolen right out of greek mythology literally atop a mountain slinging lightning. Exodus 20:18 - "

It's more fundamental than that. The jewish god is just zeus stolen right out of greek mythology literally atop a mountain slinging lightning. Exodus 20:18 - "When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn, and when they saw the flashes of lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain, they stood at a distance, trembling with fear." The twelve olympians from greek myth became the twelve tribes of israel with became the twelve disciples of christ. Noah's flood comes from the flood of gilgamesh. It's all stolen and reimagined myth.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
IIRC yahwism came from the canaanite polytheism and while that god is very similar to zeus it is actually a different and unrelated tradition. Similarly certain numbers and especially the flood theme recur across mythologies that are proven to be unconnected. You can't take even very clear similarities and use them alone to draw connections between traditions like that. In fact the allure and inevitable failure of this approach was at one point enough of a cliche that the reader's awareness of it is assumed for a major plot point in the novel middlemarch, written 150 years ago.
- basch 3y ago
  And arguably even imported from elsewhere into the Canaan stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis
mrangle 3y ago
None of it is "stolen", any more than the mythology of Zeus is stolen from Vedic tales. None of it is re-imagined, but re-articulated. If you are looking for evidence of a cultural crime, you haven't begun to get it with all due respect. This is about truth telling, not ownership of the truth. As always, the truth is always re-articulated across cultures. Generally, embedded in a manner that makes it maximally difficult for liars to corrupt it. Pointing at its articulation in various cultures as theft is, in fact, evidence that its defense system works.
basch 3y ago
https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-the-kenite-god-of-metallurgy https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-the-kenite-god-of-meta... The Kenite Hypothesis says God came from the South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis

giraffe_lady 3y ago

IIRC yahwism came from the canaanite polytheism and while that god is very similar to zeus it is actually a different and unrelated tradition. Similarly certain numbers and especially the flood theme recur across mythologies that are proven to be unconnected. You can't take even very clear similarities and use them alone to draw connections between traditions like that. In fact the allure and inevitable failure of this approach was at one point enough of a cliche that the reader's awareness of it is assumed for a major plot point in the novel middlemarch, written 150 years ago.

basch 3y ago
And arguably even imported from elsewhere into the Canaan stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis

mrangle 3y ago

None of it is "stolen", any more than the mythology of Zeus is stolen from Vedic tales. None of it is re-imagined, but re-articulated. If you are looking for evidence of a cultural crime, you haven't begun to get it with all due respect. This is about truth telling, not ownership of the truth. As always, the truth is always re-articulated across cultures. Generally, embedded in a manner that makes it maximally difficult for liars to corrupt it. Pointing at its articulation in various cultures as theft is, in fact, evidence that its defense system works.

basch 3y ago

https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-the-kenite-god-of-metallurgy https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-the-kenite-god-of-meta... The Kenite Hypothesis says God came from the South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis