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==Secular views==

==Secular views==

[[Image:gilgamesh.jpg|right|thumb|"Gilgamesh"]]

[[Image:gilgamesh.jpg|thumb|right|"Gilgamesh"]]

Although not all agree on the reliability of [[Old Testament]] accounts of [[Abraham]], most scholars who use the term "Abrahamic Mythology" believe these belief systems originated four to five thousand years ago under the influence of earlier traditions — primarily [[Mesopotamian mythology|Chaldean mythology]] — and subsequently developed through interaction with contemporaneous religions such as [[Zoroastrianism]]. Many historians, comparative mythologists and archeologists came to hold this view towards the end of the 19th Century, as academia became increasingly secularized and non-Abrahamic analogues of the central stories came to light.

Although not all agree on the reliability of [[Old Testament]] accounts of [[Abraham]], most scholars who use the term "Abrahamic Mythology" believe these belief systems originated four to five thousand years ago under the influence of earlier traditions — primarily [[Mesopotamian mythology|Chaldean mythology]] — and subsequently developed through interaction with contemporaneous religions such as [[Zoroastrianism]]. Many historians, comparative mythologists and archeologists came to hold this view towards the end of the 19th Century, as academia became increasingly secularized and non-Abrahamic analogues of the central stories came to light.