The Babylonian Creation Story and the Biblical Account of Creation

The Babylonian creation story repeats many of the details of the Biblical account but clearly is not the source of that account. The striking parallels constitute a strong argument against the framework hypothesis defended by Meredith Kline and his adherents. The Babylonian story presents the creation in terms of a consecutive story, with striking details in the same order as the Biblical account, but clearly not with the same “characters” or “actors” and not in a “framework.”