What Are The Similarities Between Gilgamesh The Hero And Genesis 6-22

Oh, Mr. Noah, your work seemed only to increase. Three hundred seventy days or so, the waters seemed to swell, then go. So God spoke to Noah, it's time to leave at last!

(find quote about gil. Boat) This is easily explainable if the account of Noah is the true story which has been tampered with, giving us the story of Gilgamesh. The scribes of the epic were unaware that the proportions of the vessel were already perfected by God. Only Noah’s Ark can survive the raging rainwater that will be required to flood the entire Earth.

For Utnapishtim he was warned in a dream by Ea. On the other hand Noah was warned directly from the lord as in the lord was speaking directly to him. As they the two soon received their warning and instructions, they soon started to work. They followed the god’s direction and measurement on how to build the specific craft they needed to survive the flood. “Ea because of his oath warned me in a dream”(29).

However, they differ in their root causes. By bringing the flood upon the earth, Enlil hoped to annihilate the human population as they were overpopulated and interfering with his sleep. His feelings towards humans can be better seen in Ea’s warning to Utnapishtim. He has him tell his village, “For sure the God Enlil feels for me hatred…I can tread no more on Enlil’s ground” (“Immortality Denied” 89). In Genesis, Adam and Eve gain knowledge strictly reserved for God after breaking his one rule.

The reason the raft was known as the ark was due to that the raft could hold the entire Appleton family, their animals, and some of their livestock as stated in paragraph 11. The father soon received the nickname of Noah or Noah count; the other people thought he was crazy for building the raft according to paragraph 12-13. However, this later helped him and his family when the flash flood occurred; because of his early preparations, his family and their animals and some livestock were able to escape safely. The other people didn’t prepare early like the father so they had to sit on the roof of their houses on getting on small boats as said in paragraph

A difference with the two stories would be the duration of the floods. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, it took a short six days and nights, but with Genesis it took a long forty days and nights plus to find the land for the flood to end. Another difference is with the height and shape of the boat. For The Epic of Gilgamesh the height was six stories, with the boat being squared shaped. With Genesis, the height was only three stories and it was a rectangular shape.

Throughout the Book of Genesis, God makes several connections between his creations, such as with Noah. As mentioned before, the Lord spoke to Noah in a vision, and said to Noah, “... 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... (Gen. 6.13).” In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the main character, Gilgamesh prays for the protection by the Sun God, Shamash, to kill Humbaba, which states “Here I present myself, Shamash, to lift up my hands in entreaty That my life may be spared; bring me again to the ramparts of Uruk: Give me your protection. I will give you homage.”

In the Israeli text it reads, “Now the Earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and full of violence…” Another similarity would be that in both versions of the myth, the two humans were instructed by their gods to build a version of the ark, and then place animals on it. This is seen in the Sumerian text where it reads, “…but the god of wisdom, Ea, warned the good mortal Utnapishtim to build a boat to save himself.” Later in the passage, Utnapishtim puts on board “…the beasts of the field both wild and tame.”

INTRODUCTION The story of Noah’s ark is about a man named Noah who God told that He is going to put an end of all flesh and cover the earth with water. So Noah was found righteous and God ordered him to build an ark and put his family and two of each of an animal, male and female. (Genesis 6:7). Below I am going to compare the film and the biblical scripture of Noah and also explain why the script writers changed the story.

In comparison, it’s always observed on how different scholars find the similarity of especially marital settings, characters, and as well as the wanderings of the mythological world. Different events within the life of these characters cover broadly a huge range of epic encounters that are heroic. The character, emotional and psychological development of Gilgamesh can be borrowed especially from the ancient heroic perspectives of mortality and death while comparing with Achilles. Mesopotamian civilization has had several phases in which hero Gilgamesh has been in existence, however having similar attributes. One of the earliest stories of Gilgamesh is developed from Sumerian texts, one of the most influential and well-known poems (Michelakis & Pantelis 2007).

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception (Carl Sargon)”. According to The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis, unprecedented floods occurred in both stories. The exception fell on the kind men, Utnapishtim and Noah: they survived the powerful event of destruction. However, in the same theme of the stories, there are sources of similarity and differences.

Each story contains an individual who is selected by a deity to build an ark and survive the flood. Utnapishtim is the chosen one in the epic of Gilgamesh. The god Ea comes to him in a dream and says “... tear down your house and build a boat, abandon possessions and look for life, despise worldly goods and save your soul alive. These are the measurements of the barque as you shall build her… then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.” In order to keep humankind and all the other living animals on earth alive, Ea chose Utnapishtim to be the one to build the ark and survive.

God told one man, Noah, to build an ark and to take two of every creature onto his ark. God allowed Noah to bring his wife, his sons and his sons wives with him on the boat. The flood lasted for forty days and forty nights. When it stopped raining, Noah and his family released a raven and three doves to see if there was any dry land to live on. As a reward for surviving the flood, Noah was granted an extended life. In the Epic of Gilgamesh there was a man who gained immortality because he survived the flood that the gods sent.

The narratives Genesis, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Enuma Elish show similarities to one another. The different cultures include those of the Babylonians, Sumerians, and Hebrew. It portrays an abundant portion of differences including divine beings, human relationships, order, peace, violence, love, trust, and faith. The story seems to have been revised and augmented from time to time until it probably received it’s final form toward the end of the second millennium. The epic thus appears to have been a Babylonian creation inspired by the search for an answer to a question about the goal of human existence.

Noah’s Ark: Voyage for the Truth The Genesis Flood is an extraordinary event that occurred thousands of years ago. Approximately 4,800 years ago, God decided to flood the Earth in order to cleanse the world of sin. God gave Noah the task of building a gigantic vessel large enough to hold two of every species in the world.