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History of Flood
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1. What similarities do you see in the story of Gilgamesh from last week and from the
passage in Genesis that I asked you to read? Do you think the “morals” of the story
are similar? What do both stories suggest about the relationship between those
societies and their G/god(s)?

In the Biblical story of Noah and the flood, God was angered by the behavior of the
people of the earth. In God’s sight, His people were full of violence and had corrupted their
ways. Only Noah and his family were righteous, and God punished all people who were
violent. Utnapishtim, being an immortal man who survived the Great Flood is like Noah,
who survived the flood in the Bible. The story of Gilgamesh has themes of immortality and
the relationship between mortals and gods. Both Gilgamesh and Enkidu were evil and
violent, and gods killed Enkidu to punish Gilgamesh. Both stories suggest that G/gods do not
condone evil and corrupt ways and can punish whoever who is against moral ways.

2. What is Finkel’s argument about the connection between the Babylonian and the
Noah flood stories? What do you think?

Finkel argues that the Noah flood stories in the Bible came from the Babylonian flood
myth, that he found cuneiform. From the tablet, instead of Noah, is a story of Atra-has who
built around ark as opposed to Noah’s ark which was oblong. According to Finkel, Noah
flood in the Old Testament is the same Babylonian story of the flood. According to Finkel,
the Babylonian flood story was written 1,500 years before the Bible was written and

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therefore, this myth influenced Noah’s ark. Since there is much rese...