1. When The Epic of Gilgamesh was first translated in the 19th century, many people viewed the Flood story in Tablet 11 as independent confirmation that the Biblical story of Noah (Genesis 6-9) was true. Today, many scholars think that the Flood story in Gilgamesh simply represents an earlier version of the same tradition of Mesopotamian legends that eventually found its way into the Hebrew Bible. Questions of influence aside, what are the main similarities and differences between these two stories? If you like, you can also compare both these stories with the Flood story in Book 1 of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, also conveniently featured on Shmoop.

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he Epic of Gilgamesh a literary product of Mesopotamia contains many of the same themes and motifs as the Hebrew Bible Of these the bestknown is probably the Epics flood story which reads a lot like t... View the full answer