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Why Did God Flood the World? The Moral Message of Noah’s Story
After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will ...
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What does it mean that Judaism is a religion of loopholes?
According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the whole of human existence is based on a loophole. The gods swore not to tell any ...
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Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark
However one god, Ea, alerts Utu-napishtim ... Later, Utu-napishtim tells Gilgamesh of his experience, according to the text. Related: Shigir Idol: World's oldest wood sculpture has mysterious ...
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Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could have been lost ... Along the way, he encounters gods and monsters, and hears an account of a flood strikingly similar to that of the later story told ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
It is also a source of much conjecture, for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as being two-thirds god and one-third human. In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the ...
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The Hittite Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Discovered on Tablets in Hattusa, Has Differing Structure and Narrative Details
The Epic of Gilgamesh, considered the oldest literary work of humanity, has been studied for centuries. Its influence has ...