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Andres Espinosa
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4/25/03
The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis

While there are many differences between the Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis in the Old Testament, there are also several similarities. Many details in the Epic of Gilgamesh are similar to occurrences in the Hebrew story of creation. One of the major similarities between the two works is the story of the flood. Another similarity is the occurrence of snakes in each story. The resemblance of each story to each other implies that perhaps each culture “borrowed” from each other to help explain the creation of man.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, a great flood wiped out nearly all of mankind in a great disaster. One of the Mesopotamian Gods Enlil, decided that he was not happy with the behavior he was seeing, and that he wanted to destroy all of mankind. “ ‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.’ So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.” This i...