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randyj
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Date: August 05, 2016 09:06AM
"What's pretty clear: the bible myth had its origin in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Did the Epic of Gilgamesh have its origin in another myth? As embellishment on a minor little local flood?"
The Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and took many Israelites captive circa 600 B.C. Some scholars theorize that the Babylonian Gilgamesh story was interpolated into Hebrew myths by those captive Hebrews. There is, of course, some archaelogical evidence of ancient floods in Mesopotamia:
https://ncse.com/cej/8/2/flood-mesopotamian-archaeological-evidence"Similarities between the account of Noah's Flood in the Hebrew scriptures and the Mesopotamian flood tales are great and obvious. Despite some lesser differences, there is no reasoned body of opinion that claims they are unrelated. The accepted view is that the archetypal account originated in Mesopotamia. The earliest extant Mesopotamian version is far older than the biblical account, and the Flood story bears specifically Mesopotamian details that cannot reasonably be supposed to derive from a Hebrew original. Near Eastern scholars have consequently turned to the cuneiform sources."