Given that there are accounts of a devastating flood that PRE-DATE the account by Moses, does this mean Moses copied his account from an earlier source?
Given that there are accounts of a devastating flood that PRE-DATE the account by Moses, does this mean Moses copied his account from an earlier source?
It means Moses wrote the true account in order to correct all the corrupted accounts out there.
Moses didn’t write anything.
It’s common sense. No kidding there are earlier accounts, how do you think they come into being? Only 8 people survived the flood. They obviously continued to procreate. So Noah sat around the campfire and told all them babies about the flood and the preflood world. Those stories continued to be passed down till the tower of Babel where God confounded the languages and the people dispursed all over the world, taking those stories they heard from papaw Noah with them.
As far as Moses goes. Obviously at the time of babel there was no Jews. Not until Abraham. Eventually we get to Moses in Egypt. Later God directs him to write Genesis. All he done was wrote the story that he had already heard as all groups of people at that time would have known the story. Problem was over time parts of the story changed in those other cultures. Moses’s account I believe to be accurate simply because he gives the dimensions of the ark. According to ship builders of today they say that ship he built would have floated. Some other accounts claim the ship was a big cube, uh no, that design would have constantly rolled over and over in the water. So I doubt that account. However parts of it is true. Moses’s account seems to be the most believable especially factoring in the arks dimensions.
So when some common sense is applied to this we can understand why that Moses account should considered even if it was a few hundred years later than others.
Ah nope He didn’t copy
I think they’re up to 16 possible authors of the OT
Naathan Lewis Flood myths are widespread, but they are not all the same myth. They differ in many important aspects, including
reasons for the flood. (Most do not give a reason.)
who survived. (Almost none have only a family of eight surviving.)
what they took with them. (Very few saved samples of all life.)
how they survived. (In about half the myths, people escaped to high ground; some flood myths have no survivors.)
what they did afterwards. (Few feature any kind of sacrifice after the flood.)
If the world’s flood myths arose from a common source, then we would expect evidence of common descent. An analysis of their similarities and differences should show either a branching tree such as the evolutionary tree of life, or, if the original biblical myth was preserved unchanged, the differences should be greater the further one gets from Babylon. Neither pattern matches the evidence.
Flood myths are best explained by repeated independent origins with some local spread and some spread by missionaries. The biblical flood myth in particular has close parallels only to other myths from the same region, with which it probably shares a common source, and to versions spread to other cultures by missionarie
It not just about what people say or believe, it’s actually more about what they refute and reject that reveals the truth or the lies and deceptions.
The source is not important as all versions are from Noah. God authenticated Moses‘ version.
That said. History is not trackable to tell who copied from who.
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