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Question: Which has the influence in early Jewish people !?Ugaritics, Phoenicians, Babylonian or Egyptians!?
I am interested to know about early Jewish literature!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Egypt and the Sumerians did!.

All of the early Old Testement stories from Genesis can be traced back to Sumerian/Mesopotamian legends such as the flood, Garden of Eden etc!.

The Egyptian influence is in the cultural/religious life of the Hebrews!. Egyptian cultural cleanliness became Hebrew dietary law, Egyptian customs like anointing govenors with oil became a custom for Israelite kings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Abraham came from Ur which is in Babylonia

but the language is much like the Phoenicians
(it is hard to say though whether the Jews influenced the Phoenicians or the Phoenicians influenced the Jews!. what i know is that the Jews came into Caanan and started basically killing all the Caanans so all Caanans went up to the Phoenicians)

Egyptians would influence them too since that is where Moses came fromWww@QuestionHome@Com

The Egyptians welcomed in, and then enslaved the Jews!. Then the Jews left and went to Caanan, where they prospered and traded with the Phoenicians (the major trade city was in Phoenicia)!. Later, they would be enslaved (again) this time by the Babylonians!.Www@QuestionHome@Com