Genesis-1

Some notes on Bible origins.

First book of the Bible is known as Genesis- in Greek its stand for “birth” and/or “origin”. Original, Hebrew name is Bereshith and its mean “in the beginning”.
As for now I will only talk about first 10 chapters of Genesis.
Myths contained are theogonic myths. This name derived from name of Hesiod poem Theogony, were poet describes the origin of universe, gods and man.
First chapters of Genesis dealing with same questions.
Many atheists know this stories quite well, because of many gabs and nonsenses.
But to me this nonsenses, so clearly visible to anyone, was a surprise to me, then I first time read Genesis.
Its much more complicated and illogical than other mythologies. of course, many atheists could simply say, that I’m looking for logic in wrong place, and ad some point they’r right, but mythic  
( its often mistake to confuse mythology and mythic.  Mythology- is science who study myths and mythic. Mythic is system of myths, an object of mythology studies )  is well-developed fantasy system, like Tolkien world,only much more complex. It have its own logic, and story goes by this logic.
But that’s hardly the case of Genesis and the Bible in general.
The reason is re-editing.
The Bible as we have it today was, more or less, formed in era after Babylon exile and before Hellenism, then Jerusalem was autonomous theocracy under Persians regime. But some parts of Bible can be traced back to 10th or it hen 11th century BC. While Bible go ts its final appearance were was an era of editing. Firstly some compilations of existing myths was made. Later, other persons, merged them with other compilations, added few notes, sciped few lines, they see as insignificant or heretical. Later, process was repeated. Time and time again. Its lasted for about 500 years ( its, of course only myth that Moses is original author of entire Pentateuch, but this legend probably marks beginning of Judaism written tradition ).
Result, as one can expect, is total mes.
Other reason is canonization- as its holly text, it is truth. And if
Another thing,must be mentioned- the idea of objectivity was not known. To rework all text the way you (or theological school you belong) thing is more appropriate or more likely was’t seen as falsification,but as quite natural thing, however strange such opinion we can see today.
So in Bible we see not only different myths (or fragments of them), but also and very different view on them.
In short words- its just more mess.

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