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The notion that Yahweh is to be worshipped as the creator-god of all the earth is first elaborated by the Second Isaiah, a 6th-century BCE exilic work whose case for the theological doctrine rests on Yahweh's power over other gods, [91] [needs update] and his incomparability and singleness relative to the gods of the Babylonian religion.
The Sanskrit speaking Aryans subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians before the fifth century BCE calculated the age of the earth as 4.3 billion years; scientists in 19th century England were convinced it was 100 million years. [22]
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
The exact date of his first appearance is also ambiguous: the term Israel first enters historical records in the 13th century BCE with the Egyptian Merneptah Stele, and, while the worship of Yahweh is circumstantially attested to as early as the 12th century BCE, [18] there is no attestation of even the name "Yahweh" in the Levant until some ...
The Talmud, [2] Midrash, [3] and Zohar [4] specify that the date by which the Messiah will appear is 6,000 years from creation. According to tradition, the Hebrew calendar started at the time of creation, placed at 3761 BCE. [5] The current (2024/2025) Hebrew year is 5785.
The major deities were not numerous – El, Asherah, and Yahweh, with Baal as a fourth god, and perhaps Shamash (the sun) in the early period. [100] At an early stage El and Yahweh became fused and Asherah did not continue as a separate state cult, [100] although she continued to be popular at a community level until Persian times. [101]
2900 BC: The second phase of Stonehenge was completed and appeared to function as the first enclosed cremation cemetery in the British Isles. 2635 BC – 2610 BC: The oldest surviving Egyptian pyramid was commissioned by Pharaoh Djoser. [18] 2600 BC: Stonehenge began to take on its final form. The wooden posts were replaced with bluestone.
'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ('In the beginning'). Genesis purports to be an account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, and the origins of the Jewish people. [2]