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A nine page paper looking at the Greek creation cosmogony versus the Biblical one, as described by Hesiod in the fifth century and the Biblical book of Genesis. The paper illustrates many points of comparison and contrast, and concludes that in large measure such stories reflect the culture of the people who composed them. Bibliography lists two sources.
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When such stories from all across the globe are compared, strong similarities emerge; but there are also strong differences, owing largely to the differences in the cultures that inspired them.
These distinctions can be seen in a comparison of the Greek creation myth written down by Hesiod in the fifth century BC with the Old Testament story in Genesis. The
Hebrew story of the creation of the world starts with the immortal words "In the beginning." The story explains that before matter existed, there was God, and God brought matter
into existence simply by commanding it to appear. His first creation was a "raging ocean that covered everything," by which we assume the writer means the "formless and desolate" earth.
It was totally dark. This situation was unsatisfactory to God, and "the power of God" began "moving over the water. Then God commanded, Let there be light," and lo and
behold! Light appeared. This was obviously an improvement, for the Bible says that "God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness, and
he named the light day and the darkness night. Evening passed and morning came; that was the first day" (Gen. 1: 1-5). Ensuing days saw God creating land; vegetation; the
sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this work. Careful readers will
note, however, that the creation story as told in the first chapter of Genesis is slightly different from that in the second. For one thing, in the first chapter, plants
are created before man, who in turn is created after the animals; in the second, man is created before both the plants and the animals, in order that there should
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