Sean McCormick

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In the Memphite Theology the gods are brought into being by Atum separating them from himself.5 One way that creation was expressed was by “the mouth which pronounced the name of everything.”6
Sean McCormick
which is significant in that the Hebrew God brought the world into being and delegated the naming of creatures to the first man, placing man on an elevated status—making him godlike in ANE terms.
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible
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