What is the Ebla creation tablet and what are its implications?

What is known as the creation tablet forms a small part of the discovery of some 15,000 clay tablets dating from 2300 BC. The creation tablet was unearthed along with the others in 1975.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of the tablet is that it follows some of the order of creation found in Genesis 1, as follows: "There was no heaven, Lugo formed it. (Lugo means "the big one" or "the great one") There was no earth, Lugo formed it. There was no sun, Lugo formed it. There was no moon, Lugo formed it.

This account, which pre-dates the Genesis creation account by around 900 years domonstrates that written records of the creation even pre-dated Abraham (born 2161 BC).

In a general sense, the existence of such written records also disproves the documentary assumption that writing was not in wide use in Moses' time so he could not have written Genesis, and so it must be placed much later. This of course does not prove that Moses wrote anything, only that he was in a time period where writing was known (in fact 900 years later) and used and so Moses cannot be excluded as the author of the Pentateuch on these grounds as incorrectly done by the 19th century documentary theorists and those who followed them.