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well...I don't know all too much, but I've gathered a basic idea
2000 bce Sumerian/Akkadian texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. While that's not exactly a religious texts, it's important to the cultural significance of the flood in Genesis
2000 bce the approximate time, give or take a few hundred years, of Abraham. that doesn't mean anything was written then
1500 bce the time of Moses. documents were surely written at this time, yet compliations undoubtedly happened. Mosaic authorship is in question, but the "Books of Moses" nonetheless give the history of the Exodus and that kind of stuff. 1500 might be too conservative. If I'm right, the Exodus is generally given the time 1200.
500 bce the Primary History (Gen-2Kings) is composed from varying sources. This is most of the Old Testament as we have it today.
200 bce - 0 ce the dates ascribed to the Dead Sea Scrolls, collected and perserved by the Essene community.
1000bce-600ce the supposed time of Zoroaster, which gave rise to Zoroastrianism, the duelistic religion, in Persia/Babylon. I'm pretty sure the Zend-Avest text came about in this time. there are other Zoroastrian texts, though
32ce-100ce the New Testament. that's obvious...
600ce Islam spreads by the sword. Koran, though stuff was added to it throughout time
for some reason I want to believe some of the eastern religions came about between 1000bce and 1000ce. sorry, I haven't looked at them very much yet. then, of course, Mormonism in 1830 or so.
hope that helps a little...
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All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me. That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out? I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness. |
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