There are many similarities as well as differences when comparing and contrasting the story of the flood in The Epic of Gilgamish and that found in the bible. In both stories a great flood is brought to mankind and one man is chosen to survive. In The Epic of Gilgamish a flood is brought to mankind because the humans were being to loud and they were bothering the gods. A man named Utnapishtim was chosen to survive the flood because of his true worshiping to the god Eu. He was told to build a boat in order to restart mankind after the flood. In the bible, the flood is brought to mankind because God felt that there was too much evil in the world. He chose a man named Noah to build an ark to save two of each animal and restart mankind after the flood. He was chosen because he was the only man on earth who saw grace in the eyes of god.
Another similarity between the flood in The Epic of Gilgamish and the flood in the Bible is that both chosen men had to build a boat to survive the flood. In both stories one good man, Noah from the bible and Utnapishtim from Gilgamish, is saved and chosen to build an ark or
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Although both men had to build a boat, the boats were very different. Utnapishtim offers a sacrifice to the gods, but Enlil becomes very angry because he is excluded from this sacrifice and that Utnapishtim escaped his wishes for all man to be destroyed. He then sends out a dove twice and the second time it does not return. The boat in Gilgamish took seven days to build while Noah took 120 years. In both stories a great storm rages and wipes out everyone and everything except the passengers onboard.
In both stories when the ark and boat are floating around the endless sea, Noah and Utnapishtim send out birds. Noah and Utnapishtim both show proper reverence to the gods and are rewarded.
In conclusion, both stories have many similarities as well as differences and one can conclude that the story in the bible could have been taken from that told in The epic of Gilgamish. In the Gilgamish flood story the gods cry and that creates the incredibly destructive flood. Finally when he sends out a raven it finds land and eats, so it does not return. ” As the waters receded the ark landed on Mt. The same thing happened when he sent out a swallow. “The great gods of heaven and hell wept. Ea convinces Enlil that Utnapishtim escaped on his own and then Enlil grants Utnapishtim the gift of immortality.
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