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Originally Posted by Eric3237
The story of Noah in the Bible is acually a re-telling of an flood story from ancient Mesopotamian texts...thousands of years before. A great number of the stories in the Bible are in fact adopted from old Mesopotamianin stories.
Israel has only been an actual place since 1947. Before that the "Nation of Israel was more of a concept and spoke of a people rather than a place. On the other had Mesopotamia was an actual place on the map, so to speak and the people who were later know as Jews came out of Mesopotamia. Abraham, for instance came out of the city of Ur and took along his household God, Yaweh, which later became the God of the Jews.
But the citystates of Mesopotamia existed for thousands of years before Israel and the roots of Israel are bound up in it. Similarly, many Egyptian traditions were borrowed. The whole point being that the Mesopotamia and Israel are not two separate things but are bound up together.
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Actually the concept of the flood is only one story people use to explain away the flood.
Israel is not a concept but but an actuall country that was actually established as the nation of Israel by Kind David even though they had occupied the land for the prior 400 years.
You have been watching to much Discovery Channel
I think the only thing wrong with the original post is the wise men were from persia, not mesopotamia.