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Babylon's creation myth was a war story
In Babylon's epic Enuma Elish, the god Marduk slays the goddess Tiamat and builds the world from her corpse. Humans are made to do the gods' drudgery.
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The myth legitimized Babylon's conquests: the world itself was carved out by force. Genesis 1 offers the counter-vision of a single Creator who builds by speaking, with no combat and no rival.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 157–158
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