... told by different people at different times. The first question I needed to answer in order to verify my conclusion was who wrote the Bible and who wrote Gilgamesh? Getting a definitive answer to this question was going to be harder than I thought. The origins of the Bible are highly controversial and still debated today ... be written by Moses as a true account of the history of the Hebrew people. Finding out who wrote the epic of Gilgamesh was even more difficult. The only person I could find credited with writing Gilgamesh was a man named Shin-eqi-unninni who was also known as Nimrod ...

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... and those in his corner, other stories of antiquity with flood accounts that include sacrifice similar to that of Noah's strengthens the necessity of an extra-Biblical source. In the Gilgamesh epic, Utnapishtim sacrifices after the deluge: "Then I sent out everything in all directions and sacrificed (a sheep). I offered incense in front of the mountain-ziggurat. Seven and seven cult vessels I put in ... gods smelled the sweet savor, and collected like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice (tablet 11)." The post-flood sacrifice in the Gilgamesh epic gives us only an aimless sacrifice lacking th...

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... to provide an explanation to everyday occurrences that they could not comprehend. This would then filter into every story or thought from that time. This precept holds true for The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Old Testament. The occurrence being referred to is the version of the great flood referred to in each tale. Each has its own grouping of similarities and ... a more personal level with their God than could be reached in a polytheistic culture. Allowing people to feel they worship out of respect and reverence rather than fear and awe. The Epic of Gilgamesh has very different reasoning...

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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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