has a different perspective than the Bible does. This paper is a contrast and comparison between the two books. The three main points of this paper will be the Creation, Flood and the Hero.

The way these two books start out is creation. This is the first similarity that we can state. God created man out of the earth, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth". In the epic, Auru, the goddess of creation created a man called Enkidu, she molded him out of clay. He was the keeper of the forest and brother to Gilgamesh. Another similarity is the fall of man and the search for everlasting life. The snake is represented in both of the stories. Gilgamesh is searching for everlasting life, and the everlasting life is within a flower. Gilgamesh finds the flower but is confronted by the snake and drops it. However, in Genesis, a snake confronted Adam and Eve. It was Eve who would not have even thought about eating the forbidden fruit without the snake tempting her. She then turns around and offers the fruit to Adam. This causes them to know about sin. As a result of their sin it continues throughout all mankind. This causes Go

When the flood came it was all over the world in both of the books. Noah and Utnapishtim were both righteous men. They were both told to build a boat and they both complained about it. The flood was a result of man's wickedness. Utnapishtim said "the world teemed, the people multiplies, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour". The noise was so harsh that they agreed to "exterminate mankind". Genesis states that "the earth was filled with violence" and that the world was "corrupt" . So God told Noah that "the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth". The difference here is the way that the way the gods/Gods got the idea to destroy the Earth. Since man was sinning and making all this noise God wanted to destroy his creation and start over. The flood came by heavy rains in both Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh. The flood was different by several of the following ways. The first thing to note is who instructed Noah to build a boat? The instruction in Genesis was Yahweh (God). Now in the Epic, there was an assembly of gods. Second is the whole dynamic of the boat structures. The height, width, compartments, and the shape. Noah's boat was three stories high and Utnapishtim's was six stories high. The shape of Noah's boat was rectangular and Utnapishtim's was square. On Noah's boat the only human passengers allowed on the boat were family members which was his three sons and their wives and of course, Noah's wife. Utnapisht

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