Was Genesis Taken From Pagan Legends?

Some critics claim Genesis 2-3 was written by borrowing from pagan legends found throughout Mesopotamia. But how much evidence supports an alleged connection?

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Tryggve Mettinger - The Eden Narrative

Encyclopaedia Judaica: Second Edition

G. Herbert Livingstone - The Pentateuch in Its Cultural Environment

Richard Hess & David Toshio Tsumura - I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood

Mark Chavalas & K. Lawson Younger Jr. - Mesopotamia and the Bible

H.E.M. Braakhuis - Xbalanque's marriage: A commentary on the Q'eqchi' myth of sun and moon

Douglas Bush - Mrs. Bennet and the Dark Gods: The Truth about Jane Austen

Geza Roheim - Australian Totemism

Steven - Hijmans - The Sun Which Did Not Rise In the East

David Carr -  The Formation of Genesis 1-11

Thorkild Jacobsen -  The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion

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