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Essay on Common Threads Great Flood and the Flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1208 words (4.83 pages) in the essay titled Common Threads Great Flood and the Flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh Common Threads: Great Flood and the Flood in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”Did the authors of the Old Testament have a copy of “The Epic of Gilgamesh”? Or was this fantastic plot, and its unmistakably recognizable specifics, simply a part of the broader oral history of the time, which possibly originated with a real event? The story of the Great Flood that takes place in Genesis would have probably sounded familiar to someone who lived thousands of years earlier, in the ancient Near Eastern culture that passed down “Gilgamesh” in an oral tradition. The striking resilience of this tale told in the “flood chapters” of the earliest known work of literature, could be evidence of an ancient flood so enormous as to remain in the collective conscience and culture of the surviving descendants for such periods of time. But most importantly, numerous facets of Noah’s heroic, adventurous tale correspond in surprising detail to very similar ones in Utnapishtim’s. With each matching description and event building a stronger case, it would be difficult not to imagine the former saga having evolved somehow from the latter. Genesis tells us that “Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth,” and it is subtly implied that Noah was allowed to live over five times as long as other men in order that he might carry out God’s orders. This relatively eternal lifespan was surely a reward for obeying God. In “Gilgamesh”, Utnapishtim also was directly rewarded for his nautical ... |
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Keywords: great flood, epic of gilgamesh, common threads, utnapishtim, pestilence, eternal life, noah, genesis, adventurous, gift of the gods, collective conscience, lived thousands, oral tradition, eastern culture, right from the beginning, obeying god, lifespan, resilience, subtly