The Similarities Between Judaism And Mesopotamia

Mesopotamians were a highly religious people, that believed in thousands of gods that had a hand in every aspect of one’s life. Like Mesopotamians, Egyptian people had various gods that they believed controlled the natural and supernatural worlds. Judaism has one sole creator, that is God, the single God that formed everything on earth. The difference between each of these religions are that they serve and worship different gods. As well as how many they believed in. Mesopotamians believed in Ea, Anu, and Enlil along with many smaller scale gods. In comparison Egyptians believed in several big gods such as Osiris, Isis, Seth, and each god connected from their family tree. Judaism believed in Yahweh, the divine being of the universe. Egyptians have the

Thus, this belief encouraged Egyptians to live a pure life so that they could go to the life after death. Mesopotamians believed in Hammurabi’s code, which demonstrates the importance of religion, probity of hard work, and one’s social status. All of these based off the ruling of the Babylonian king Hammurabi. Judaism’s moral law are the Ten Commandments, which were laws from their God, such as one should love their neighbor as themselves. The greatest similarity between the religions is that they worshipped at least one god, but both the Egyptians and Mesopotamians worshipped several. The difference between each is which god they believed in, because neither believed in the same god(s). What was important to the civilizations that worshipped Judaism was the Hebrew Bible. The Bible held answers to their creator’s being. The civilizations that worshipped Egyptian religion thought that their kings and gods were important. This was because they ruled over everything in their land therefore, they worshipped them and thought highly of them. They did this by daily preforming rituals with offerings. Mesopotamians’ civilizations held their gods in the highest