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Similarities Between Gilgamesh And Hebrew Bible

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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. For example, in the Epic of Gilgamesh there are several gods who conflict with each other and even among the gods; there are gods that are superior while in the “Genesis”, there is only one all-powerful God who is undisputed. In Gilgamesh, the flood is sent by "the gods," who want to wipe out the human race because it has become too noisy--a rather unfeeling
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