Do you think the Bible was inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh?

While it's clearly nonsense to suggest that every book of the Bible - Hebrew or Christian - was inspired by the Gilgamesh Epic, there are a small handful of biblical texts that seem to be dependent on the much older Mesopotamian epic. read more

Gilgamesh and the Bible by Shawna Dolansky The Epic of Gilgamesh, a literary product of Mesopotamia, contains many of the same themes and motifs as the Hebrew Bible. Of these, the best-known is probably the Epic’s flood story, which reads a lot like the biblical tale of Noah’s ark . read more