Originally posted by Atlantis001
Yeah, that too. Considering that the jews descended from the babylonians, and that they were the same people before, "the akkadians", probably much of the jewish religion derived from them.
Many things in the kabbalah also look egyptian.
Right. For example, the Old Testament Book of Job is predated by almost 1000 years by a Babylonian text whose story is the same. His name is Job as well, but in the Babylonian version he is afflicted with leprosy rather than boils and such. The message is inherently similar though.
There's also Zoroastrianism influence that predates them, and the Egyptian stuff you mentioned is some of the oldest known predecessors to Judaism and Christianity. The Egyptian god Horus is in fact an early predecessor to Jesus. Reading a list of similarities between their lives is like reading one of those freaky comparison sheets from the Lincoln/Kennedy assassinations (hopefully you're from the states, or that reference will be totally lost on you).