Was Seth the god of chaos related to Adam?

Answer 1

Whether or not Seth in the Hebrew Bible was named after Seth the Egyptian chaos god, we do know that chaos gods did form part of early Hebrew mythology. Although this is not evident in Genesis chapter 2, we do see many fragmentary references to chaos gods and the demons that had to be overcome elsewhere in The Bible. Arguably there was once a relationship between the chaos gods and Adam.

In Religion and its Monsters, Timothy K. Beal (Associate Professor of Biblical Literature) sees the story of Job, with its fragmentary references to Yam, Behemoth, Leviathan and other chaos concepts, as suggesting a potential return to primal chaos. A more literal translation than the king James Version is needed, in order to understand the original Hebrew. Job 7:12 "Am I Yam or a sea monster that you set guard over me?" (Translated in KJVas "Am I a sea, or a whale ..."). In Job 38:5-11, God berates Job, "who shut Yam behind doors (Translated in KJV as "shut up the sea with doors") when it burst forth from the womb, when I made clouds its clothing, and dense clouds its swaddling?" Job 40:15-24 refers to the great Behemoth that can drink up a river. Job 41:25 says even the other gods (Translated in KJV as "The mighty") fear Leviathan.