concepts and events. The works of the Quran‚ the book of Genesis‚ and the Epic of Gilgamesh all contain similar story lines. Each story contains a flood caused by the actions of men‚ and an individual chosen by a deity to build an ark to survive the flood. However‚ there are differences between the literature due to the culture of the people recording the texts. The Epic of Gilgamesh has a polytheistic religion and immortality‚ while the book of Genesis and the Quran is monotheistic and does not mention
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General information on the Sumarian Epic Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) The epic developed over a period of nearly a thousand years. It was discovered in the city of Ninevah amidst the ruins of the great royal library of Assurbanipal‚ the last great king of the Assyrian empire. The text is still not completely understood today. We can identify three stages in the epic’s development. The first begins in roughly 2700 B.C.E. when the historical Gilgamesh ruled in Uruk‚ a city in ancient Mesopotamia
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Christianity HONORS Section September 18‚ 2013 Comparison between Genesis 1 & Genesis 2 The story of creation begins with Genesis 1 and 2‚ it explains how the world and it’s living inhabitants were created from God’s touch. From Genesis 1 we see how the sky‚ seas‚ land‚ animals‚ and mankind were created. However Genesis 2 focuses more on the first of mankind‚ known as Adam and Eve and how they are made to be. In this paper I will compare Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 and what the main idea for creation is
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creating a flood to kill off the cruel race that is humanity. Two of the oldest stories are the Old Testament and The Epic of Gilgamesh. Since being written in similar regions and times‚ there are stark similarities between them. However‚ despite these similarities‚ there are some surprising differences. Firstly‚ the cause was similar in both Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh. In both stories‚ the God or gods brought the flood as punishment for the sins of mankind. The God of the Hebrews‚ saw the
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Two Different Books with Similar Stories The Book of Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh have many clear similarities. One major‚ noticeable similarity is that in both stories‚ there are flood legends. There is the legend of Noah and the Ark in The Book of Genesis and the story of Utnapishtim in The Epic of Gilgamesh. In both stories‚ a higher power wants to wipe out the human race and decides to save one person who is then assigned to build an ark to hold himself‚ his family‚ and one of each animal
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Gilgamesh and The Iliad have both impacted a plethora of generations‚ the stories even conforming to today’s dynamic atmosphere and allowing individuals to still relate to heart aching emotions portrayed within both epics. Fragile yet emotional‚ the topic of friendship intertwines these epics into the impassioned worlds they create‚ allowing the reader too thoroughly dissolve the rather enigmatic emotions flared out by both Gilgamesh and Achilles. The account of these characters friendships undermine
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and privilege (Charles Kuralt.)" The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey tell the stories of two men recognizing what means the most to them in life. They journey through their quests transforming into different people from whence they first began. In the end‚ they realize they just want to be loved and be with the ones who understand them most. When comparing the epics‚ it becomes apparent that Homer had to have been influenced by The Epic of Gilgamesh before creating The Odyssey because of similarities
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royalty‚ or both. Two examples of an epic hero are the characters Gilgamesh and Perseus. While both Gilgamesh and Perseus are from two wildly different cultures‚ they are both have similar characteristics such as both having a polytheistic religion‚ both losing friends‚ and both are given advice from the gods. Despite Gilgamesh having a sumerian background‚ and Perseus having a grecian one‚ they both belong to polytheistic religions. Gilgamesh worships Gods such as Siduri‚ Shamash‚ and Enlil the chief
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but‚ only a handful of those people have been exposed to the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh. By observing the similarities in both stories one should come to realize that one of these stories must have been written before the other. According to Britannica‚ the clay tablets which the Epic of Gilgamesh was imprinted on predate any recordings of the flood story from the Bible. Since the Epic of Gilgamesh is known to be nothing but a gripping story‚ much like Greek epics‚ containing glorious adventures
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A Comparison of the Flood of the Bible and Gilgamesh I as well as many others grew up listening to the story of Noah and the flood. I remember the length of the flood‚ the dove‚ and the rainbow very vividly. However‚ most people do not realize that the story is told throughout many different cultures and with accounts older than Genesis’s version in the Bible. Although each of the accounts tells of the flood‚ there are many variations to the story. One of the stories can be found in the Epic
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