Is there a common conception behind the lights of the Priestly redactors, the flaming wheels of the Ionian philosophers, and the lamps of the Mesopotamian commentators?Maybe. But maybe not. The Mesopotamian, Israelite, and Greek sages were very smart people. Each group may have come up with a lot of their own cosmology just by looking up at the sky and drawing inferences. Not everything is influence.
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