1.The three accounts of the flood story all consist of similarities and differences. To begin with, the two stories of the flood in the book of Genesis consists of the Priestly Source (P Source) and the Yahwist Source (J Source). The flood story begins in Genesis 6, the overlapping portions and repetition in the story shows that multiple sources were combined. In the first six verses, God explains that humans are wicked. YHWH saw “wickedness in humankind” and was “sorry he had made humankind”
In both myths, the god(s) are not pleased with the order of the earth and the people that they have created, which leads them to want to completely destroy the people and start on a clean slate. The people do not pray enough, are not well behaved, and are audacious, which proves to the god(s) that what they have created is not good enough. “‘The end of all flesh is come before [Him]; for the earth is filled with violence’”, God was telling Noah as he explained to him what he wanted him to do with the ark (70). When the god(s) want to put a stop to the destruction of the people, in both myths, the god(s) choose one specific person to be rescued and have a second chance at proving their mightiness, in “Noah and the Flood” it was Noah and in “The Story of the Flood”, it was Utnapishtim. These characters are bold and are favored by the gods for their dedication and they tell them each man how to build their sacred shelter and what to bring onto the boat/ark they build.
Noah’s Ark VS Gilgamesh First let’s start with Noah and the Ark. Noah was warned by God that he was going to flood the earth. According to Genesis, God gave Noah instructions for building the ark. Seven days before the rains came, God told Noah to enter the ark with his family and the animals. The story describes the ark staying afloat throughout the entire flood.
The characters in the flood stories differ because after the Utanapishtim is called to build a boat, he is concerned about what people will say and think. In lines 35-36 Utanapishtim says, “But what shall I answer the city, the populace, and the / Elders!”. However, Noah never asks what he shall say to the people or does not even seem concerned about the rest of humanity. He simply agrees to the Lord’s request and builds the boat without any
The Epic of Gilgamesh was about one person. Genesis is about various accounts of different individuals lives. The Epic of Gilgamesh correlates to humanities because it teaches us even now to stop being so self-considerate, and conceited and be more passionate about the beautiful world around your, that you have been granted a chance to live and dwell in. This poem or text explains the bad and good throughout the world, and explaining that the good path is always the one to choose. It teaches use from right and wrong.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story in Genesis are very alike and different at the same time. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia and Genesis is the first book of the Bible. Even though they both come from different writers they both have a man that was told by a divine power to save mankind from a flood. Both of these men in both of these stories were rewarded by being able to continue living after the flood. In both The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story in Genesis they both have a horrible flood that was sent by the divine to wipe out everything on earth and similar events that happened but some other smaller details are different in each story.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew bible have several similarities and differences. First, the design of the woman, Yatpan, who set out to kill her brother, is similar to the woman who visits a man with the intention of killing him, at the end of the old testament. There is also the story of Anat and Aquat, similar to the story of Gilgamesh and Ishtar. Similarly, there are differences.
However, a number of Christian scholars believe that the flood of Genesis was passed down through oral tradition prior to the creation of the Babylonian flood myth. They believe that all of the flood myths that came from the Middle East were derived from the Genesis flood. The Epic of Gilgamesh was first discovered in the ruins of the great library located in Nineveh. The Epic dates back to around the third millennium BC. (Vos pg.
On the other hand, in the Bible God does not feel any regret for the deaths that he has caused. In the end God states that he will never provoke a flood of such a magnitude and tells Noah and his family to procreate with the purpose of repopulating earth. The gods in Gilgamesh just create new people and instruct them to repopulate
Both, Gilgamesh and Genesis are two stories that have similar stories that show the same plot and meaning. One of the top similarities between both stories are the creation of man and their counterparts. The relationships of Adam and Eve, and Shamhat, and Enkidu pose to be one in the same. Both men are created from a hire up, Adam being very holy without any sin, Enkidu being two thirds God like one third man. The stories actually seem that they could be one in the same, that’s how much the detail in both of them explain the same meaning.
Even though both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis are similar in that they all use the floods for a destruction, both the stories are different from each other in the distribution of roles within the gods and a way to warn the extermination from the gods. First, the similarity between The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis is the relevance with the flooding that used to exterminate the human. To prove the occurrence of the flood, chapter 5 of The Epic of Gilgamesh records, “For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts (line 62-63, p. 21)”. Also in Genesis, the text “The waters flooded the earth for a hundred
The main differences between the two are the length of the flood and what birds were released after the rain
Comparison Between Gilgamesh and Genesis There are many similarities between the epic Gilgamesh and the biblical story of Genesis. Some similarities between the two stories are the creation of man, the similarity between the relationships of Enkidu and Shamhat and Adam and Eve, and the story of the great flood. These similarities are so important because to shows that these two stories could actually be one in the same. Since Gilgamesh is the older of the two stories, Genesis could possibly be a re-visioning of the epic Gilgamesh to help Christians become a more predominant group. One of the similarities to support this is the two stories is the creation of man.
In “The Epic of Gilgamesh” there are multiple gods and the leader of the gods decides to slaughter the human race because “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of babel.” (Gilgamesh 146) There is only one god in “Noah and the Flood” and his reasoning behind killing the human race is because he “regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened.” (Noah 171) God warned Noah about the flood because he thought Noah was pure.
The flood story is based on the geologic ages identified through scientific understanding of the changing physical features of the earth (Origin myths: The Flood, 37). The period is between about 12,000 and 7000 BCE which was a period of worldwide warming (Origin myths, 37). Changing environmental conditions was common throughout the world. The rainfall and ocean levels rose some 300 feet (Origin myths 37). Some people began to believe their creator was punishing humans who were displeasing, so the Great Flood become part of the origin myth.
