In both stories, large amounts of description are used to build an ark. These specifications make it very easy for historians to reconstruct what the arks would look like. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the boat was described as such: “…let her beam equal her length, let her deck be roofed like the vault that covers the abyss; then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.”(Corcoran, 24). The construction lasts for 7 days. During the time of construction great feasting and celebration occurred. In the Bible, God also gives specific instructions on how to build the boat. “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.’ ‘And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it it thirty cubits.”(Corcoran, 57). When the construction techniques are compared to one another it becomes very obvious that shipbuilding was somewhat uniform across cultures (with slight variation due to local
In both stories, large amounts of description are used to build an ark. These specifications make it very easy for historians to reconstruct what the arks would look like. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the boat was described as such: “…let her beam equal her length, let her deck be roofed like the vault that covers the abyss; then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.”(Corcoran, 24). The construction lasts for 7 days. During the time of construction great feasting and celebration occurred. In the Bible, God also gives specific instructions on how to build the boat. “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.’ ‘And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it it thirty cubits.”(Corcoran, 57). When the construction techniques are compared to one another it becomes very obvious that shipbuilding was somewhat uniform across cultures (with slight variation due to local