Some Modern scholars are teaching that Genesis was written in the fifth century BC as a retelling of stories from earlier sources. If this is true, then the writer or writers of Genesis could of used the above epics has sources.

However, when you look at the different stories and epics (there are more then just the above three) written in the same area, about or before Genesis, you realize that Genesis has very little in common (besides the general topics: creation, flood, etc).

Genesis is about a God would creates the world out of nothing, not the body of a dead god. Man is made in the image of God to walk with Him and be His friend, not as slaves to do all the bad jobs. Human kind is saved by the kindness of God, not out of luck or because one of the gods happen to overhear the plans of the other gods and tells man.

Genesis is so different from anything else it has to be from a divine source. You cannot tie it to anything else. If any of the stories are tied to a source, they would be tied to Genesis as one can see how it’s stories could of been twisted.

You’ve really summarized those stories.

I’m not sure that you can tie any of those as decended/depended upon the other. Granted Enuma Elish is dated around the 11th century BC and Moses was ~3 centuries earlier. On a side note, see my post.

My post.