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Genesis and Gilgamesh are not two independent accounts of one flood; one is literarily dependent on the other.
Drawn from what Irving Finkel said
A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.
What Irving Finkel actually said
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Assyriologist at the British Museum
So this was not only in the Epic of Gilgamesh, but it was also in the Book of Genesis. So what it meant was that it wasn’t… You couldn’t have two stories… It wasn’t two stories about the same thing. It was literary dependence.
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