It borrows heavily from a lot of ancient things but the Bible predates any major Greek civilization. It was supposedly written around the time the Myceneans were getting things started but before Alexander spread things far and wide. The old testament anyway. The new testament and Christianity have borrowed heavily from lots of pagan cultures and religions including the Greek and Vikings. The Hebrew probably came up with the notion of one single god though, before then all religions had many gods.
I was being facetious. The Bible, old or new testament, have nothing at all to do with Greek mythology. If anything, it's pretty much the opposite of Greek mythology.
For the sake of argument though, the Torah supposedly has been passed down from God to Moses and "his people" and rabbinical tradition puts Moses life around the 13th century BC, admitting he probably didn't exist or was a figure standing for many others in the Torah.
Greek Mythology started as an oral tradition of folk tales in the Bronze Age or around the same time Moses would have been alive and passing on God's teachings so they're actually more contemporary than you think.
The Hebrew probably came up with the notion of one single god though, before then all religions had many gods.
I think things were probably actually a lot lot worse before monotheism and not just due to lack of medicine. Even before the notion of a single god people killed each other in the name of this god or that god, it's not something new with monotheism. If anything I would argue that things are slightly better since the Abrahamic religions abolished human sacrifice. I mean as far as society goes things are pretty much the same now as they were 5,000 years ago. People with strong strong minds employ people with strong bodies to enforce their will over the weak by way of a rigged reward system. But what I said about Christianity is very much true, the first major adopters of Christianity were the Greeks giving us the Greek Orthodox Church and they heavily influenced it, as did the Romans who soon followed. Most Christian holidays are just rebranded Pagan holidays. As for who actually wrote the old testament, who knows but it is generally accepted that it was all written between 1500BC and 200BC which admittedly is a large span. But it was written piecemeal with parts being added and removed and altered over time. In fact it is highly probable that at least some of it comes from oral traditions dating back to well before this time period as written language was something relatively new around 1500BC. It's interesting to think about all of it but very little evidence actually exists for anything that happened over 3,000 years ago. I firmly believe it was a lot worse than the modern day though. While there may have been a lot more hippy communes, they probably didn't last very long. Disease, famine, small kingdoms enslaving and/or slaughtering entire communes and all that. And whatever freedom you experienced would have been short and brutal with the typical lifespan being less than 40, I look forward to my senescence. I'm fairly certain nobody lived for 800+ years like what is written in the old testament.
Everything is always "inspired" by something else. I mean... the Bible is basically just ripping off Greek Mythology :P
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It borrows heavily from a lot of ancient things but the Bible predates any major Greek civilization. It was supposedly written around the time the Myceneans were getting things started but before Alexander spread things far and wide. The old testament anyway. The new testament and Christianity have borrowed heavily from lots of pagan cultures and religions including the Greek and Vikings. The Hebrew probably came up with the notion of one single god though, before then all religions had many gods.
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I was being facetious. The Bible, old or new testament, have nothing at all to do with Greek mythology. If anything, it's pretty much the opposite of Greek mythology.
For the sake of argument though, the Torah supposedly has been passed down from God to Moses and "his people" and rabbinical tradition puts Moses life around the 13th century BC, admitting he probably didn't exist or was a figure standing for many others in the Torah.
Greek Mythology started as an oral tradition of folk tales in the Bronze Age or around the same time Moses would have been alive and passing on God's teachings so they're actually more contemporary than you think.
And things started going sideways :P
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I think things were probably actually a lot lot worse before monotheism and not just due to lack of medicine. Even before the notion of a single god people killed each other in the name of this god or that god, it's not something new with monotheism. If anything I would argue that things are slightly better since the Abrahamic religions abolished human sacrifice. I mean as far as society goes things are pretty much the same now as they were 5,000 years ago. People with strong strong minds employ people with strong bodies to enforce their will over the weak by way of a rigged reward system. But what I said about Christianity is very much true, the first major adopters of Christianity were the Greeks giving us the Greek Orthodox Church and they heavily influenced it, as did the Romans who soon followed. Most Christian holidays are just rebranded Pagan holidays. As for who actually wrote the old testament, who knows but it is generally accepted that it was all written between 1500BC and 200BC which admittedly is a large span. But it was written piecemeal with parts being added and removed and altered over time. In fact it is highly probable that at least some of it comes from oral traditions dating back to well before this time period as written language was something relatively new around 1500BC. It's interesting to think about all of it but very little evidence actually exists for anything that happened over 3,000 years ago. I firmly believe it was a lot worse than the modern day though. While there may have been a lot more hippy communes, they probably didn't last very long. Disease, famine, small kingdoms enslaving and/or slaughtering entire communes and all that. And whatever freedom you experienced would have been short and brutal with the typical lifespan being less than 40, I look forward to my senescence. I'm fairly certain nobody lived for 800+ years like what is written in the old testament.
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Thank you very much! I wish you a fantastic October! ;-)
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You're welcome !
I wish you (at least) the same :)
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