Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh tells the story of Noah's FloodWhen the tablets were found of the story of Gilgamesh by Mr. Rawlson, he did not have any idea what he was looking at, but he knew that it was old and valuable for History. George Smith on the other hand was fascinated by the tablets and he began to study the writing on them. Mr. Smith found out that he could read parts of the language on the tablets and began to translate as much as he could of these tablets. While he was translating the Tablet 11, he was sure that he found the story of Noah and the Flood. I t was so identical to the Flood in the Bible, everyone that knew about the tablets, became excited. When everything was translated though they discovered that it was not the story of the Flood in the Bible instead it was a story of a young man traveling around the country to find eternal life. He encounter a man (Utnapishtim) who told of a story about the Flood he had witness and the adventures that had happen. What is hard to believe is the fact that Gilgamesh's time was 5000 years before the Bible. Could this possibly mean that the story has been handed down from one generation to another, for so long, that people incorporated the story into the Bible when
return. In Utnapishtim's story he first released a dove and later it was a raven that did it was first written? If this is true, then made immortal by the gods. Noah remained human and died at the age of 950. seems as thought God wants to destroy the evil of mankind but also wishes for the just
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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