Comparing the Babylonian Flood vs. Biblical Flood

The tablet was first discovered in several different areas as a document known as Gilgamesh epic for the first time in 1000 BC. This ancient Mesopotamian epic was generally communicated in a dramatic way. "Babylonian priest named Sin-liqe-unninni around 1200 BC modified the epic to its final form" (Damrosch 29). Then there is the first 11 chapters of Genesis, the prologue to the whole of the Law, the Hebrew Bible written in 2000 BC. (Dam Roche 74).

Bible floods and epic poems of the Gilgamesh flood of the Old Testament Genesis are similar to Gilgamesh epic semilo - Babylon version tablets discovered by British archaeologists in Assyria in the 19th century. The account was recorded on the 11th. In the preface to the book "Gilgamesh epic", NK Sanders summarizes the involvement of pagan gods in the smollo - Babylonian flood story. As usual with the floods of Gilgamesh, Ishtar and Enil, it is an advocate of destruction.

Is the flood of Gilgamesh the basis of the biblical flood? Origin of the Old Testament documented the flood of the world early in human civilization. The Gilgamesh Epic-Somero-Babylon version of Tablet 11 also recorded the flooding of the entire planet in the early stages of human development. Let's examine both and decide if one can be the basis of the other. Nels M. Bailkey in the reading of ancient history: the thought and experience from Gilganes to Saint Augustine, the lack of similarities and comments between the two versions: a remarkable similarity with later Hebrew stories But the big gap between them needs to be e.

In the 19th century, Assyrian George Smith translated the explanation of Babylon's flood. Further discoveries have produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myths. That account number is closest to one of the Genesis books and was found in the epic replica of Gilgames of Babylon in 700 BC. In this work, the hero Gilgamesh met with immortal Utopa Pishtim and explained how God Oia ordered God Oia to build a huge ship to cause a flood that destroyed the world that hit God. This ship will rescue animals with Utnapishtim, his family, his friends