Although both the flood in Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh from Tablet XI are from different time eras, one is able to infer about the similarities about both stories and how they are altered to their own respected culture. These similarities and difference of both of these stories provide the reader with an understanding of how through analyzing both of these texts, one is able to see that the flood story gives one an understanding of not only during the respected society during this time, but
The epic of Gilgamesh, written somewhere between 1200 B.C.E and 2100 B.C.E, has many similarities to the bible, particularly Genesis. Genesis six through nine is the story of God’s disappointment with humankind and his fondness of Noah. The main synopsis of the Genesis story is the flood God unleashes on the Earth. At the end of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, Utanapishtim tells Gilgamesh the heroic story of the flood he survived sent down by the Gods. While the two tales of a flood are strikingly similar
Before those early near east religious texts, especially the Epic of Gilgamesh, were discovered, most Christians believed that the Bible is the revelation of God and is absolutely original. However, after the discoveries of earlier religious documents in regions near Israel such as Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece, the originality of Bible has been questioned by more and more people, since there are assignable similarities between Bible and these newly discovered texts. Those texts and the Bible share
times. These stories have influenced our understanding and our belief in a God. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Noah Flood Story (Genesis 69:17) both share the trait of someone being chosen by a God to bring the people and animals to safety by building an ark. Cultures between Mesopotamia and Hebrews are different cultures but share a story of the God(s) and how there is a higher power, they also share a similarity of the God(s) showing compassion towards people. In Mesopotamia, there was more than one
1. Both the Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis include stories about a great flood, with some similarities, however, there are also a few differences. Two ways the stories differ from each other is the boat’s shape and the people that got on the boat. In Utnapishtim’s story, the boat was square with “ten dozen cubits, the height of each of her sides, ten dozen cubits square, her outer dimensions” while Noah’s boat was rectangular (103). Then Utnapishtim let family as well as friends onto the boat while