Gilgamesh v. Noah

Title: Gilgamesh v. Noah
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
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Gilgamesh v. Noah

Many of the same ancient stories can be found in different cultures. Each story differs in some aspects, but the general themes can have striking similarities. One story that is paralleled in several cultures is the legend of a great, disastrous flood. The epic of Gilgamesh resembles the Bible’s story of Noah’s Ark, but specific details differ on several occasions. The story of Gilgamesh originates from twelve fire-hardened, mud tablets, written in cuneiform, …showed first 75 words of 1152 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1152 total…the empty sea, (Lecture, 9/7/1999). With so many different cultures trying to explain a great flood, there are bound to be differences in each account. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark are different in small details. The fact that the two stories are so close in account to each other, with regard to general storyline, is quite amazing when considering the fact that these two cultures are so very different.

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