The Bible is plagiarized/ Copied and slightly modified from centuries of prior myth

Good points Genesis is a very popular and criticized story because, well, its the first story and most don't read after that, but also because its a creation story that is and forever will be argued between Christians. Lets take a closer look at Genesis though. The Pentateuch itself is an anonymous work and though tradition does give it to Moses, we really do not know who wrote it. First off, the are 2 different creation stories in genesis. One being the one you talk about and the other which is very different It is the first that sets out the seven days of creation: "Day 1: heavens, earth, light, day and night. "Day 2: the "dome" (sky) that separates the waters below (on earth) from the waters above the sky. "Day 3: dry land and vegetation. "Day 4: stars, moon, sun. "Day 5: water creatures and birds. "Day 6: land animals; humankind (both male and female). The number of human beings created is not specified. Also, God here gives to people "every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food" (Gen 1:29) -- no prohibitions. "Day 7: God rested, and blessed this day. In the second creation story, things are a little different. First of all, individual days are not specified. And the sequence is very different: "earth and heavens; no rain yet but a spring would well up and water the ground "from dust, man was created (not woman yet) "garden of Eden -- man is put here; garden includes the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil "God tells man to till and keep the garden of Eden, but not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (note that Woman has not entered the scene yet! Man is alone). "God notices that Man is alone and wants to find him a helper and partner, so He first creates animals and birds and Man names them. But still there was no helper as partner. "God makes Man fall asleep, pulls out a rib, and makes Woman. "The story of original sin then ensues. Religions from various cultures, and even total opposite sides of the globe, share a lot of their stories. Some even share physical objects. If you look at the stories in very broad terms, yes, there are many similarities. One can find them in the Hindu stories of creation as well and even the Native American's have similar stories. But that is no reason to write off the first genesis story that is similar in text and came from the same location as a bunch of other religions, chances are, who ever wrote it, was inspired by other stories. As far as the commandments in the bible, there is actually over 600 listed through out the Pentateuch as "laws", while they are in the Christian bible, they are taken much more seriously with Judaism. All cultures have "Laws" regardless if there is a god "present" or not. The Book of Dead, to my knowledge has around 40. The Book of the Dead is very different from the bible and was part of a tradition as funerary texts which focuses very heavily on the afterlife and dying. The Old Testament when it talks about life after death primarily talks about a place called Sheol in Hebrew. The Old Testament it seems rather straightforward that for the Israelites death was the end of the road - it is the end of the line. One theory of the two being so different is that when the Jews left Egypt, they wanted nothing to do with the Egyptians, including their religion. As far as David and goliath, to my knowledge at least, is a borrowed story or just a "word of mouth" story in which an under dog over comes something bigger than himself. Each culture uses this analogy for different things.