Assignment 6- Elizabeth Moore - The Bible as an Epic with Historical Allusions

My father has treated me like an adult since day one. We debate politics (although I’ve given up keeping track of the news because it makes me feel, for lack of a better word, icky), talk about how various life experiences define character, watch Battlestar Galactica and Firefly, – frequently lamenting that the latter was cancelled – and my personal favorite, debate Biblical theory and historical allusions in the Bible. i know that Christianity is one of those things that a lot of people just aren’t sure about, which isn’t to say that I’m sure either, but the Bible is unrefutably a fascinating literary collection. It’s a window into life before time started. And there are countless allusions to historical events that shook the old world and appear in dozens of other religious doctrines and cultures. Much of Biblical history is echoed in Herodotus’ account of history, for instance. A great flood that washed away civilization, not unlike the flood in Genesis, is apparent in not only other cultures, but also the fossil record.

Check this out for reference: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/evidence-suggests-biblical-great-flood-noahs-time-happened/story?id=17884533

The fertile crescent near present day Iraq - the original garden of Eden? Were Abram and Sarai originally from Mesopotamia? How much of the Old Testament is written as a story meant to teach a lesson or as figurative language rather than a collection of biographies? Is the creation story in the first chapter of Genesis actually a classic Hebrew poem merely intended to refute the religious beliefs of other cultures and point to the idea that God is omnipotent? The Old Testament is rife with intriguing possibilities!