Today at 04:11 PM abraham said this in Post #21
This brings up the possibility that Genesis, especially the earlier chapters, was written by Adam, Seth, Noah, and others of that time period and later translated and recorded as a whole in its present form by Moses.
Would you agree so far?
Moses had to have gotten his information from somewhere. Moses writes a lot about Noah and he writes a lot about Abraham. Also he writes a lot about Joseph. So I would look at those as being three key people who provided information for Moses.
First, you start with Noah. He survived the flood. So there is really no one else with inside information, other than Noah. Also, Noah's father Lamech died three years before the flood. But Adam was still alive for the first 52 years or so of Lamech's life. So Noah's father could very well have known Adam. Also, Seth was alive for maybe the first 150 years of Lamech's life.
Noah's ark ended up in the mountains of what is now Armenian, north of Iraq. Some people feel that is the general area that Eden was in. There does not seem to be any question that Eden was in the furtile cresent somewhere. Armenian's today feel that they are a decendant of Noah & they they are the cradle of civilization. Recently in 1990, they became independant of the Soviet Union, so they are once again an independant country. With a Embassy here in American and we have a Embassy there. So we have a seperate diplomatic relationship with them from the Soviet Union.
We have some sketchy stories of different events in the Bible, but nothing of any real detail until we get to Abraham. He comes out of the city of Ur, a Chaldea's city in what is now Iraq, just north of the Persian Gulf. At the time it was a port city. They were known to be learned and wise men who used the Sumnerian language. Abraham left Ur because they worshiped the moon god SIN. A word we see a lot in the Bible. We are told that Abraham was looking for a city who's maker and founder was God. That would be Jerusalam, and he did see it from a distance. I will try not to go into to much detail here.
Next we hear about Joseph. Again, we have lots of information and many details about him and his life. This also is our Egypt connection. He could very well have had the records from Abraham and even further back to Noah. Joseph was also a very educated man. Like Noah and like Abraham.
Then Moses comes along. A son of Pharaoh. He was well educated in Egypt, and would have had access to any book they had there. He most likely got into whatever Sumarian clay tablets that Joseph had deposited and there could have been tablets from Abraham and even back to Noah.
Of course Moses could not take the records with him, they belonged to the Egyptian government. He could only make a copy of them. At the time the Papyrus was the popular writing methoid, so Moses would have had to translate the records from the Sumerian language into Hebrew.
Of course in 3000 bc was the tower of Babel, when the world was split into Sumerian and Egyptian written language. Although they were both a very similar picture style writting on clay tablets.
Another connection could be the Midians. They were known to be decendants of Abraham. Moses father in law Jethro was a priest and a wise and educated man. He use to advice Moses and showed Moses how to set up a system of judges, when the work got to be to much for him.
I do not think we have to look to far to see where Moses got his information from.
