Did Ancient Greek Mythology Ancient Egyptian Mythology or the Old Testament come first?

Answer 1

The Old Testament has existed in oral form(passed by word of mouth) for millenia, and although it's exact age cannot be precisely determined because of it's oral nature, it like first emerged in Ancient Mesopotamia.

It would therefore have been either a contemporary or a predecessor of the Egyptian Mythology, which began around 4000BC.

Greek Mythology didn't come into existence until around 2000BC, though the Minoan Civilization which influenced it existed as early as 2700BC

New answer:

Whose mythology came first? Hebrew, Egyptian, or Greek are the choices. I would say that in this case Egyptian mythology came first simply due to the ancientness of its culture. Before there was the state of Egypt there were 2 states the delta area and the desert area with many important city sites within both areas.

Petrographic and Neolithic evidence suggests that desert area contains religious artifacts that date back 7,000 years at such sites as Nabta Playa in the Western desert and Wadi Umm Salam in the Eastern desert. These sites show that even at this early date Egyptian theology was forming.

Much has been made of the Mesopotamian origin of Hebrew mythology but when you actually compare the two there is a big difference. Mesopotamian theology is the gods created mankind to serve the gods, death was a rather drab, unwelcoming place. Hebrew theology is god created man in his image with responsibly to care for all of his creations, death held the promise of eternal life. The source of the Mesopotamian origin, was originally introduced about 1902, by Professor F. Delitzsch titled Bable- Bible and has mostly been disproven, still supporters exist. Professor John D. Currid in his book ancient Egypt and the Old Testament is an excellent and modern work refuting Delitzsch.

As for the "oral tradition" of Hebrew mythology- consider that be it Mesopotamia, or Egypt where Hebrews lived they lived in a literate societies. When they moved into Palestine, they became the conduit crossroad through which caravans travelled between the literate people of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Crossroads historically have been great centers of knowledge for many peoples to live, and visit. So, like the Bible-Bable argument it is really questionable at how long Hebrew mythology was simply oral tradition. Considering that Joseph son of Jacob rose to become Pharaoh's mighty arm, and Moses knew how to write, it is likely others within the Hebrew community knew how to write and read as well.

Now for the Greek mythology, within its own record it acknowledges older gods than Zeus, Poseidon, and Hera, etc. Their father Cronus, the Titan ruled the gods after rebelling against the gods that existed before him, only to be overthrown by his son Zeus.