Old Testament And Genesis Comparison

As previously written, God creates Adam and Eve and puts them into a Garden of Eden to live for eternity as immortals as long as the obey God. Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the forbidden tree and as a consequence God expels them from the Garden of Eden. Their disobedience to God becomes known as "The Fall of Man, Failure of Man or the Original Sin." After their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve begin a family together eventually having three sons named Cain, Abel and Seth followed by two daughters and two more sons who are not named in the bible. Adam lives to be 930 years of age, but there is no biblical reference as to Eve's age when she dies.
The following pages compares the similarities of the stories between the Old

Testament and the older Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian mythologies concerning the creation of mankind, loss of innocence and loss of immortality. Stories to be compared to the Old Testament, specifically, will be the Enuma Elish, the Epic of Atra-Hasis, the Eridu Genesis, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Tale of Adapa and Enki and Ninmah - A Sumerian Myth.
There exist similarities between the Old Testament and the Mesopotamian mythologies such as the Enuma Elish and the Epic of Atra-Hasis in regards to the creation of mankind.

In these mythologies of ancient Sumer and Babylonia, it was the job of the junior gods to do all manual labor as requested by the senior gods.
Because of this, the junior gods felt they were above this type of work and wanted someone else to do their labor. As shown in Genesis 1:26, Adam becomes forced to rule over all of the animals on the Earth. From the Enuma Elish, mankind becomes responsible to do the manual labor once done by the junior gods. Then from the Epic of Atra-Hasis, beginning with "I have done," the junior gods are no longer required to do manual labor, because mankind was created to do the manual labor. Finally, Enki and Ninmahm starting with "My mother," create mankind to do manual labor
Besides the Old Testament, there are other myths that describe a god using dirt, clay or mud to create the first man. Starting with Genesis 2:7, followed by the Eridu Genesis, then the Epic of Gilgamesh, also Enki and Ninmah and finally the Epic of Atra-Hasis where clay is mixed with blood, flesh and clay to create the first

human.
All of the civilizations and cultures that lived in the Levant and the Mesopotamian Valley used various dialects of the Semitic language. With regards to names, Adam in ancient Hebrew means "human" and when used as a masculine noun it means "man, mankind or human-kind." The root name of Adam is Adamah and means "ground or earth." Other words such as "adom" means red, "admoni" which means ruddy and "dam," which means blood and all come from the same Semitic root word "Adamah."
The creation of Eve from the Old Testament when compared to the Sumerian mythology of Enki and Ninhursag - A Sumerian Myth, in which both stories use a man's rib to create a woman.
Written in Genesis 2:21-23, God uses a rib from Adam to create the first woman, but in the story of Enki and Ninhursag - A Sumerian Myth, Enki's rib is used to create the goddess Nin-ti to cure Enki's illness.
Eve's name when translated into ancient Hebrew is "Hawwah" which means "giver of life" or "source of live" and comes from the Hebrew name "Chawwah" which means "to breathe." Similarly, the name "Chawwah" comes from the ancient Hebrew root name "Chawat." Both Eve's and the goddess Asherah's name means mother of all living things.

The Sumerian goddess Nin-tu's name when translated Nin means "Lady of Life" and tu means "Lady of the Rib."
Within the Old Testament there exist three different versions of God's creation of Adam and Eve.
From Genesis 1:26-27, by the Priestly source, the creation of male and female occurs at the same time and no name is given to either of them. Found in Genesis 2:7, by the Jahwist source, creation of man takes place first, then followed in verses 21-22 when the female is created and again neither of them have a name.
Afterwards written in Genesis 3:9, by the Jahwist source, God names the first male Adam who later in Genesis 3:20, names the first female Hawwah.
Recorded in Genesis 5:2, by the Redactor source, is the third version of the creation of mankind, however, this time the name Adam is given to both the male and female.
In Genesis 1:27, by the Priestly source, God creates man from a thought, but in Genesis 2:7, by the Jahwist source, God uses dirt to form a

man.
Then later in Genesis 1:29, by the Priestly source, Adam is allowed to eat anything he wants to from the garden of Eden, whereas, in Genesis 2:17, by the Jahwist source, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and if they do they will die. Nevertheless, Adam lived to be 930 years of age according to Genesis 5:5, by the Redactor source.
Discovered, in 1932AD, at an excavation site near Nineveh, Iraq a small clay tablet, dated to 3500BC, known as the "Fall of Man Seal, the Adam and Eve Seal or the Temptation Seal." Made during the Uruk Period of Sumer, this small clay tablet shows two figures a male and female on each side of a tree with a figure of a snake or serpent behind the woman's back.
On the backside of the tablet, it depicts a standing behind the serpent are a naked man and woman.