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To appreciate the details of the two creation stories in Genesis (chapters 1, and 2–3) and the one hidden creation story in Psalms and the Prophets, we need to examine four Mesopotamian stories—Atrahasis, ca. 1700 B.C.E., Enuma Elish, late 2^nd millennium B.C.E., the myth of Adapa, early 2^nd millennium B.C.E., and the Epic of Gilgamesh, 2^nd millennium B.C.E.—and the Canaanite Baal Cycle, 14^th–13^th century B.C.E.