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Well, caf, this is just to let you know that I haven't abandoned the discussion, I just have a very heavy class schedule this week and have had no time to spend online, let alone do any research. I've just had time to read your post quickly, but will do so more carefully and respond later in the week. My first impression is that I'm not sure whether you accept the EE as a source for Genesis or not - perhaps that will become clearer on a second, slower reading. My understanding was that the EE and Genesis were more or less comtemporary, and that the sources of one were, at least in part, the sources of the other. The EB states that the Babylonian sources are in turn based on Sumerian myths going back at least to 3000BC. My comment about it sounding like Revelation was not intended as a quip or witticism, just a remark on the literary style of the translation - other excerpts I have read have had a completely different 'feel', but I suppose the same could be said in comparing the KJV with, say, the Good News Bible. More later.
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