The Floods in Gilgamesh and the Bible’s Genesis
The floods described in the early epic “Gilgamesh” and the Biblical book of “Genesis” are both similar and different in many ways. In “Gilgamesh,” mankind is being punished because they annoy the god Enlil with their intolerable “clamour” (41). Enlil confers with the other gods, and they unanimously decide to rid the world of the ...