20 Dec 2022 2:32 pm
It's interesting historical reading.Vegas » 20 Dec 2022, 3:04 pm » wrote: ↑ Yeah, hard to tell. I mean they are great stories. I think they have a lot of profound value to them. However, many religious people count on them as historical evidence that supports their doctrine. That is not correct.
"Did the Bible 'Borrow' the Noah's Ark Story From the Epic of Gilgamesh?"
"But then Smith found something remarkable. As he translated the cuneiform word by word, a familiar story unfolded. There was a god punishing humanity with a catastrophic flood, one man who was chosen to survive using a specially constructed boat filled with animals and seeds, and after the flood, birds being released to find dry land."
"This wasn't the story of Noah and the ark, though, and this wasn't the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament). What Smith had discovered was only one chapter in a sprawling Mesopotamian tale now known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, first written in 1,800 B.C.E., around 1,000 years before the Hebrew Bible."
"When Smith first made the connection between the two flood stories in Gilgamesh and Genesis, legend says that he became so excited that he danced around the room removing his clothes. Smith's discovery shook the foundations of biblical scholarship by proposing that some, if not all, of the Hebrew Bible was borrowed from neighboring civilizations."
https://history.howstuffworks.com/histo ... gamesh.htm