Gilgamesh vs. Noah By It is said that life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it. It is not the circumstances of life that determine a person’s character. Rather‚ it is the way a character responds to those circumstances that provides a display of who he is. "From the Epic of Gilgamesh"‚ as translated by N.K. Sandars‚ and "Noah and the Flood" from the Book of Genesis‚ both Gilgamesh and Noah face similar circumstances‚ but don’t always respond to them the same way. Accepting
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Summary VI. Works Cited Abstract This term paper compares the flood story in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible and the flood story in Gilgamesh. It identifies links between the ancient Sumerian epic and the account of Noah in Genesis as well as similarities between the two. Similarities include the use of an arc and sacrifices made after the floods to the respective gods. While conducting the research for this paper‚ I reviewed a total of five books. The first was
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build an ark along with taking every kind of animal onboard. They are also similar in the fact that the flood is called upon by God or the gods because of man’s actions. Similarly‚ both Noah and Utnapishtim are from Mesopotamia.(Lambert) There are a few dissimilarities along with the story‚ the main being the fact that in the Hebrew version there is only one god while in the Sumerian version there are many gods. In both stories of the flood‚ the men are told by God or a god to build an ark. The
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Many of the same old past stories can be found in different cultures. Each story differs in some views but the general themes and the main idea these stories want to transmit to their people who believe in their own God can have striking similarities. That why the Epic of Gilgamesh compares to the Bible in many different ways and the epic also has an extraordinarily different perspective than the Bible does. Yet the Bible and Gilgamesh‚ story or truth‚ myth or religion‚ these are questions that are
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The Great Floods: Gilgamesh vs. The Genesis The epic story of Gilgamesh talks about a great flood that covered the whole world. Isn’t it strange that this story seems to mirror that of the great flood in the Book of Genesis? These two stories contain general similarities but when comparing the minute details‚ they are very different. The story of Gilgamesh was written around 2000 B.C.‚ many years before the Genesis story in about 400 B.C. The writers of the bible probably knew of the flood in
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis are two different texts from different time periods. The stories that are going to be discussed are the Genesis and Gilgamesh flood stories. They have few similarities but their stories continue along the same line‚ although they are different in regard to detail. This essay will examine the reasons of the flood‚ the role of the two main characters‚ the religious characters and other noticeable difference of these texts. The reason of the flood of the in The
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is displeased in his people so to punish them he is going to flood the earth‚ but he wanted Noah to live because he was favorable to God. God tells Noah to build an ark with certain measurements and to cover it in pitch. When the ark was created Noah filled it with every animal that lived on land so they could prosper after. When the flood comes it covers the whole earth killing everyone not on the Ark. Noah released birds to tell if the water has retreated and when one of his birds finds olive leaf
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Spielberg’s films: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark‚ ET (The Extraterrestrial)‚ Hook‚ and Jurassic Park. Like last years play‚ it was like an interview‚ and instead of E-Talk‚ it was based on Inside The Actor’s Studio‚ where the actors talk about their roles in their movie. Fun from the beginning to the end‚ these young actors are incredibly talented‚ and really brought their characters to life. Raiders of the Lost Ark was quite possibly the most dry play out of all the others. The
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of Noah’s Ark‚ both the Bibical religon and The Samerion religon delt with a great flood. In both stories that the “sins” of man have angered their gods and so the gods will punish the human race. They both had warning this was going to happen‚ alon with specific instructions on how to spare themselves along with carrying out the certain wishes of the gods. Noah had instrucions‚ as Gilgamish did. Noahs instructions were “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark‚ and shalt
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except the passengers onboard the ark or boat. In the Gilgamesh flood the gods cry and that creates the incredibly destructive flood. The rains last for six days and six nights and finally when the flood receded the boat landed on a mountain where it is stuck for seven days. In Genesis‚ God sends down the flood with his divine power. The rain lasts a longer in this story‚ this time for forty days and forty nights. In this story when the waters receded the ark was stuck on a mountain for approximately
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