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W. G. Lambert (2013), Babylonian Creation Myths, Eisenbrauns.

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Human Origins

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Specialist cuneiform edition and translation for Mesopotamian creation traditions, including divine-material human creation.

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Mesopotamian textual evidence must not be treated as interchangeable with biblical or Qur’anic theology or as genetic history.
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Genesis, Qur’anic, and Mesopotamian sources include human-creation imagery involving earth, dust, clay, breath, or divine material, but each belongs to a distinct textual and living interpretive tradition.

Answer / theory: Many traditions use clay, earth, breath, or divine material to explain human creation. What supports it: Genesis and multiple comparative traditions. What is weak or disputed: Literal biological interpretation. Evidence level: Strong Evidence as mythic motif, weak as literal science.
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