Three Versions of the Great Flood

Most people have heard stories about the Great Flood. Where do you live, your religious beliefs will influence the myths you listen to. They all have the same foundation; humans are destroyed for their sins, and humans are told to build an ark, he does so The basis of each story is the same, wrong. Compare the three versions of the Great Flood, the Sumerian flood myths, the Babylonian flood myths, and the verses written in the Bible.

Flood: A mythical story about the great destruction that was once brought to the earth. There are several variants; the Bible version is most famous. It is impossible to exclude the possibility of historical events behind the story (floods in southern Babylon in the 28th century BC). The Myth of the Great Flood is not one of the most popular stories in Greece and Rome. We can hardly find pictures of Deucalion and Pyrrha, these two heroes are the Western version myth. One reason is that Greeks are not as afraid of water as Babylonians. Their rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, submerged as wheat and barley matured. The flood of the river is certainly a disaster. On the other hand, Greek agriculture relies on rain, and the Greeks know little about what it means to flood the river.

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

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.