Original sentence: Gordon Wenham sees the story as containing distinct mythic elements, but clarifies that it is not entirely mythical, in the sense that it bears the marks of a carefully contrived literary creation, written with a distinct theological agenda—the elevation of Yahweh, the God of Israel, over all other gods, and notably over Marduk, the god of Babylon.Some ancient Near East cultures conceived of the world as a flat disk surrounded by water, in which the habitable earth floated rather like a bubble.Some scholars see this cosmology underlying Genesis 1-2, but with important theological differences: The Mesopotamian myths ascribes the creation to multiple gods who created man to be their servant, but the Hebrew re-telling is almost totally de-mythologized, emphasizing instead the supremacy of Yahweh, the single god (Elohim) of Israel.Today the Genesis narrative is increasingly being referred to as a creation myth—defined as the symbolic narrative of the beginning of the world as understood by a particular community
Edited sentence: Ancient Near East cultures conceived of the world as a flat disk surrounded by water, in which the habitable earth floated rather like a bubble.Scholars see this cosmology underlying Genesis 1-2, but with important theological differences: The Mesopotamian myths ascribes the creation to multiple gods who created man to be their servant, but the Hebrew re-telling is almost totally de-mythologized, emphasizing instead the supremacy of Yahweh, the single god (Elohim) of Israel.The Genesis creation myth—the word "myth signifies a theological narrative, not a fiction- bears the marks of a carefully contrived literary creation, written with a distinct theological agenda—the elevation of Yahweh, the God of Israel, over all other gods, and notably over Marduk, the god of Babylon