Noahs Flood

In the accidental discovery of Utnapishtim’s “Story of the Flood,” scholars were able to translate this work and find that it has a very close resemblance to the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. They are both similar and different in a number of ways.

One way they are obviously similar is that they each have a primary character that is given the job of building a boat so that God (or God’s) can destroy every living thing on it. Another similar trait both stories have is the existence of a bird to see whether or not land is nearby.

Although both stories have the same central idea, they are very much different in many distinct ways. First of all, in Gilgamesh, the reason the God’s wanted to destroy existence is because the human race was keeping the God’s up at night while in the Hebrew version it is because human’s have become corrupt and sinful in their ways. Also the length of time of the floods is different because it lasts