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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

Subjectreligion
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religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What Irving Finkel actually said

  1. Irving Finkel 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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    Watch from 1:15:02 plays here

    ↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com

    12 Dec 2025 · video · 2h 05m · spoken · official transcript

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