ot;Garden of Eden" and "Cain and Abel." Both of these tales end with God promising pain and hard work to all future generations of people, because of their knowledge/disobedience of morals and ethics, and this idea is similar to the idea of human purpose in "Atrahasis."
             Leader of the "fierce and capricious" (Fiero, p.36) circle of Mesopotamian gods, Marduk enforced laws and was the ultimate judge when they were broken; he also would determine fate, as he possessed the "Tablets of Destiny." This is somewhat comparable to the Hebrew God, who provided laws and morality as a product of his "divine plan" that permeated the universe. On a more secular level, the Hebrew laws set forth in Exodus are strikingly similar to the Laws of Hammurabi, especially evident in the "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" sta
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