Wesley Huff

And we actually do have another flood story in the Atrasis, which appears to have been influenced. The Epic of Gilgamesh story is influenced by the Atrasis. But I don't know. In terms of like written language, I guess it's the Enuma Elish. I wouldn't actually know what like the oldest, oldest one is. But you get a lot of these origin stories and they have these themes. We see it in the Bible too.

And we actually do have another flood story in the Atrasis, which appears to have been influenced. The Epic of Gilgamesh story is influenced by the Atrasis. But I don't know. In terms of like written language, I guess it's the Enuma Elish. I wouldn't actually know what like the oldest, oldest one is. But you get a lot of these origin stories and they have these themes. We see it in the Bible too.

And we actually do have another flood story in the Atrasis, which appears to have been influenced. The Epic of Gilgamesh story is influenced by the Atrasis. But I don't know. In terms of like written language, I guess it's the Enuma Elish. I wouldn't actually know what like the oldest, oldest one is. But you get a lot of these origin stories and they have these themes. We see it in the Bible too.

The ancient Near Eastern cultures were very preoccupied with chaos and order. And so it's all about kind of creating order out of the chaos of the world. And that's where I think you do see the parallels.

The ancient Near Eastern cultures were very preoccupied with chaos and order. And so it's all about kind of creating order out of the chaos of the world. And that's where I think you do see the parallels.

The ancient Near Eastern cultures were very preoccupied with chaos and order. And so it's all about kind of creating order out of the chaos of the world. And that's where I think you do see the parallels.

Yeah, yeah. And establishing chaos and certain things being representational of chaos within the created order. Like the Bible included, but a lot of other ancient cultures saw things like the ocean. As the embodiment of unpredictability and chaos. And so that's why you have sea monsters are this very common depiction. The Leviathan in Job, which is this, you know, sea monster.

Yeah, yeah. And establishing chaos and certain things being representational of chaos within the created order. Like the Bible included, but a lot of other ancient cultures saw things like the ocean. As the embodiment of unpredictability and chaos. And so that's why you have sea monsters are this very common depiction. The Leviathan in Job, which is this, you know, sea monster.

Yeah, yeah. And establishing chaos and certain things being representational of chaos within the created order. Like the Bible included, but a lot of other ancient cultures saw things like the ocean. As the embodiment of unpredictability and chaos. And so that's why you have sea monsters are this very common depiction. The Leviathan in Job, which is this, you know, sea monster.

And it's representational in a way of because it appears actually in Babylonian literature to the Leviathan. Yeah. And it's it's encompassing chaos in the world. And the point of God bringing it up to Job in the book of Job is like God has the ability to tame this thing. And even in the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible, it says that in the new heavens and new earth, there will be no sea.

And it's representational in a way of because it appears actually in Babylonian literature to the Leviathan. Yeah. And it's it's encompassing chaos in the world. And the point of God bringing it up to Job in the book of Job is like God has the ability to tame this thing. And even in the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible, it says that in the new heavens and new earth, there will be no sea.

And it's representational in a way of because it appears actually in Babylonian literature to the Leviathan. Yeah. And it's it's encompassing chaos in the world. And the point of God bringing it up to Job in the book of Job is like God has the ability to tame this thing. And even in the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible, it says that in the new heavens and new earth, there will be no sea.

And it's not because, you know, I had a friend who is Australian and we were kind of working through translating sections of Revelation. And he's like, hold on, there will be no sea. It's like, I'm Australian. I love the sea. But the point of that, though, is not necessarily that like the body of water is not going to exist. It's that the ocean, the sea exists. is so unpredictable.

And it's not because, you know, I had a friend who is Australian and we were kind of working through translating sections of Revelation. And he's like, hold on, there will be no sea. It's like, I'm Australian. I love the sea. But the point of that, though, is not necessarily that like the body of water is not going to exist. It's that the ocean, the sea exists. is so unpredictable.

And it's not because, you know, I had a friend who is Australian and we were kind of working through translating sections of Revelation. And he's like, hold on, there will be no sea. It's like, I'm Australian. I love the sea. But the point of that, though, is not necessarily that like the body of water is not going to exist. It's that the ocean, the sea exists. is so unpredictable.

You go out there and storms can come out of nowhere and you die. And so there are these motifs that are representational in the ancient world. And we see a lot of those in these creation stories. So would it be that the dangers of the sea would no longer exist? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So the sea kind of working as an analogy of that which is unpredictable.

You go out there and storms can come out of nowhere and you die. And so there are these motifs that are representational in the ancient world. And we see a lot of those in these creation stories. So would it be that the dangers of the sea would no longer exist? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So the sea kind of working as an analogy of that which is unpredictable.

You go out there and storms can come out of nowhere and you die. And so there are these motifs that are representational in the ancient world. And we see a lot of those in these creation stories. So would it be that the dangers of the sea would no longer exist? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So the sea kind of working as an analogy of that which is unpredictable.

And actually, there's a lot of concepts of the realm of the dead being in the sea that we see throughout this literature. If you read the book of Jonah... there's this kind of stylistic, which you miss when you read it in the English, but it's very apparent in the Hebrew, where Noah keeps going down.

And actually, there's a lot of concepts of the realm of the dead being in the sea that we see throughout this literature. If you read the book of Jonah... there's this kind of stylistic, which you miss when you read it in the English, but it's very apparent in the Hebrew, where Noah keeps going down.