Is the Gilgamesh Flood the Basis of the Biblical Flood in the Book of G

Is the Gilgamesh Flood theBasis of the Biblical Flood? Genesis of the senile Testament records a worldwide Flood early on in the history of human civilization. Tablet 11of the Sumero-Babylonian version of the epic of Gilgamesh also records a total Flood of the entire earth very early in mankinds development. Lets examine the two to see if one could be the basis for the other. Nels M. Bailkey in Readings in Ancient biography Thought and Experience from Gilganesh to St. Augustine, comments on the likenesses and lack thereof between the two versions The striking similarities with the afterward Hebraic story are quite evident, and the great gulf between them needs to be emphasized the Hebrew version has been completely moralized. In the Hebrew account the Flood is move because of sin, and the hero is save because he is righteous. In the Sumero-Babylonian version the hero is saved out of mere favoritism and the gods send the Flood, as we learn from a separate account, becaus e their sleep has been disturbed oppressive has become the clamor of mankind, by their uproar they prevent sleep. Above all, the one supreme righteous beau ideal of the Hebrews contrasts with the gang of weak, quarrelsome, greedy gods who cowered like dogs in the presence of the Flood and who later like flies gathered around the sacrificer. (10) Alexander Heidel in his book, The Gilgamesh desperate and gray-haired Testament Parallels, provides a background for the survivor of the Sumero-Babylonian Flood, Utnapishtim Utnapishtim was the son of Ubara-Tutu, the Otiartes, or, rather, Opartes of Berossus. check to Berossus, the deluge hero was the tenth Prediluvian king in Babylonia. Also in the Sumerian inscription he i... ...its acceptance by God these are repeated in both accounts of the Flood. WORKS CITED Bailkey, Nels M. Readings in Ancient score Thought and Experience from Gilganesh to St. Augustine. Third edition. Lexington, MA D.C.Heath and Co., 1987. Gardner, John a nd John Maier. Gilgamesh Translated from the Sin-leqi-unninni version. untried York Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Harris, Stephen L. Gilgamesh. The Humanist Tradition in World Literature. Ed. Stephen Harris. Columbus, OH Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1970. Heidel, Alexander. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1949. Ignatius Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition. San Francisco Ignatius Press, 1966. Sandars. N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York Penguin Books, 1972.