Greek Mythology and Genesis - NJBibleScience Mythology and... · 2019-08-14 · • Greek Mythology...
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Greek Mythology and
Genesis
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• Overview of Early Genesis
• World Cultures and Early Genesis
• Greek Art/Greek Mythology
– Noah/Nereus in Greek Art
– Herakles/Nimrod
– Zeus/Adam
– Athena/Naamah
• East Pediment of Parthenon
– Understanding
– Characters
Agenda
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Genesis (1-10)• Days of Creation (resting on the 7th)
• The Creation of Adam and Eve
• The Fall of Man
• Cain and Abel– Cain’s descendants
• Descendants of Adam
• The Corruption of Mankind
• The Flood
• The Flood Subsides
• Covenant of the Rainbow
• Descendants of Noah– Shem
– Japheth
– Ham -Cush -Nimrod3
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Gilgamesh
Inca (Peru)
Ottawa
Bunjil
Tanzania
Sagaiye
Lake of Llion
Genesis in Cultures from Around the World
Choctaw
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Santal
Shang Ti
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KAIN (HEPHAISTOS)
SETH (ARES)
ADAM AND EVE
(ZEUS AND HERA)
Noah (Nereus)
ZEUS HERA5
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Noah to
Nimrod
Shem Japheth
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Did the Greeks Know Who Noah Was?
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Noah’s Flood
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On this vase-painting, Herakles threatens Noah with his club.
HERAKLES’ REBELLION AGAINST NOAH
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Here, Herakles pushes Noah aside.
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And here, the vase-artist depicts Herakles bringing Noah and his rule to a halt. 16
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Herakles’ first 11 labors and his other battles all had one objective—embodied in his 12th and
final labor—getting back to the serpent-entwined tree in the ancient garden for another bite of
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Nereus
Herakles
Kentaur
Athena
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And Athena rewarded the great hero after he had pushed Noah and his God out of the picture
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12 Labors of
Herakles
Temple of
Zeus
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Geryon
Herakles Herakles
Atlas
Athena
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Zeus/Adam
at Olympia
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Parthenon
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• Displays the Greek ―story‖ of Genesis
• Man’s ―triumph‖ over God
• Reflection of Eden
• Triumph of the Serpent
• Deifies real people of history
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The Greek poets and playwrights traced Zeus and Hera back to an ancient paradise
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Chrysothemis
Asterope
Hygeia
Lipara
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Clotho
Lachesis
Atropos
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Two opposite interpretations of the very same event.41
Zeus
Athena
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Conclusion• Once again – Bible provides proper framework
• Stories from cultures around the world– Noah’s Flood
– God the Creator
• Greek Mythology– Garden of Eden
– Adam/Eve Zeus/Hera Brother/Sister
– Noah
– Line of Seth
– Nimrod/Herakles
– Naamah/Athena
– Cush/Hermes
– Noah’s Flood destroying the “good” line of Kain
– Serpent is “good”
– Nimrod/Herakles rebellion against God42
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