... in both accounts. In the Bible the snake takes away humans everlasting life in the garden and gets them exiled and in the Epic the snake takes away Gilgamesh's everlasting life which was consumed in a plant. In the Bible I find far greater meaning behind what happened with the snake compared to the ... story. Within the text of Genesis you can see God's great plan already starting to form. No trace of a plan is found within the Gilgamesh epic at least that I can see; please tell me if there is one. Man fell. But God had a plan, a great plan, which was redemption. ... the plan after the ...

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... history of the early civilizations you find most of them have some sort of devastating deluge in their history. The most well recognized story outside the biblical account is the Gilgamesh epic. There are striking similarities in this story as to the one in the biblical account . One cannot help but wonder where these accounts of a worldwide flood originated. There has to ... and will continue to have people debating. We as a human race will continue wonder exactly what happened and how we have come to the conclusion that there was a flood of epic proportions. It seems people who want t...

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... have today? Why did I choose this topic? My original intention was to write about the story of Noah as told by the Bible, and compare it with the story of Gilgamesh. When I started compiling the research, I discovered that there was more documentation interpreting the bible than I ever imagined. I found myself more interested in how the bible came to be than with ... and even greater religious significance, it is the supreme literary work (or rather collection of works), containing the world's best in storytelling, drama, proverbs, and above all, the most inspired epic poetry. For there...

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• Grade Level: High School