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Gilgamesh

There are multiple similarities and differences in the stories The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by N.K. Sandars, and the Book of Genesis from The Bible. The way one responds to a difficult situation provides an insight into that person’s beliefs. Noah, from Genesis 6-9, and Utnapishtim, from The Epic of Gilgamesh, encounter similar challenges, but do not respond exactly in the same manner.

The first similarity is Noah and Utnapishtim must deal with the powerlessness of life’s eventual demise. Noah faces death of all mankind except his family and a pair of every creature on earth, which accompany him into the ark. God instructs Noah to build an ark, and he does this unquestioningly and obediently. “Noah did everything just as God commanded him”(NIV Genesis 6:22). Even when God tells Noah that He “will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature” he has made, “… Noah did all that the Lord commanded him”(NIV Genesis 7:5). As for Utnapishtim, he was summoned by one of the gods, Ea, the god of water and of wisdom, to create an ark to survive the wrath of the gods. Utnapishtim obeyed, “When I understood I said to my lord, ‘Behold what you have commanded I will honour and perform…” (Gilgamesh 41). Both characters dealt

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