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A five page paper which looks at the similarities and differences between the portrayal of deities and human beings in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh, with specific reference to the myth of the flood which is common to both texts.
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events and philosophies propounded in the biblical Book of Genesis and the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. For instance, they both relate stories of the creation of humanity by a deity
or deities, although in Genesis the creation is the work of a single autonomous god, whereas in Gilgamesh it is the result of interaction between a god and goddess, in
the form of a battle which results in the goddesss body forming the earth and the sky. In Genesis, creation is accomplished out
of a void in which all that exists is the ineffable deity, and the first point at which other entities come into being is the creation of animals and later
humans; there is no pantheon of gods. In Gilgamesh, there is a pre-existing pantheon which not only is responsible for the creation of the world and humanity, but also interacts
closely with human beings after the creation. Similarly, both accounts describe the formation of a companion for the original human entity who
is created, and emphasise the need for a duality of being amongst humanity. In Sumerian myth, this reflects the male-female duality of the pre-existing pantheon, whereas in Genesis the implication
is that the creationist deity has no gender, and it is a characteristic peculiar to humans and animals. As William Hallo (1996)
also points out, the interaction between Enki and Enlil in Sumerian legend has resonances in the interaction between guardians and embodiments of good and evil in Christian myth. Again, there
is an emphasis on the essential nature of duality, in the sense of balance between light and dark, and good and evil, which is evidenced in both legends.
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