The Bible borrowed off of the Epic of Gilgamesh?!?! Hahhahaa it's the other way around pal.
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Dear Anonymous,
The flood? what flood? do you have any evidence of this "flood" of yours?
Anonymous
Redhunter, I think we have two Anonymouses running around, seeing that the first Anonymous didn't even bother to give a name. Then again, there probably is a fundy or two out there who thinks that 2150 BC comes after 722 BC.
The real reason is that neither of the two copied each other(probably, by the time the Bible was composed, Gilgamesh was long forgotten). It´s just that, being in the same cultural and geographical space, the people who wrote them had a common shared knowledge and corpus of myths and wisdom that was transmitted in the mouth first, and written down second.
2150-2000 years before the birth of Christ is earlier than 992-722 before the birth of Christ. You do understand that don't you, Anonymous?
No, you need to do a little bit more studying, Ace. The Bible's flood story was ripped off from the Babylonians, who themselves had ripped it off from an earlier society.
Ace101888, the river Temarac, in winter. #237150, Khidir beneath Momouteh. Shaka, when the walls fell.
I am the Anonymous that posted the Wikipedia links, and I understand BC just fine. You mistargeted your aggression against the nameless poster.
I apologise, Anonymous. I thought that you were a fundy that did not know that the BC years count down.
No, it did. It borrowed from "Gilgamesh," likely during the Babylonian Exile. Then again, I'm no biblical scholar; maybe somebody here knows more. >_>
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