The Flood Stories: The Validity Debate Continues.
Date Submitted: 07/21/2004 01:36:30
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 8 pages (2301 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 8 pages (2301 words)
Paul Aberion
English 303 West Lit Backgrounds
Professor Beth Haddrell
10/ 20/ 03'
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The Flood Stories: The Validity Debate Continues
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, it articulates how, "For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts" (Sandars 111). Alternatively, in the Old Testament, it simply states, "All the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of …
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…place emphasis on. The Old Testament is more simple and organized to the expressively written Epic of Gilgamesh and Metamorphoses. The main distinction have to do with spiritual diversity between distinct cultures. It is because of these variations in writing and technique, that each of these poems have acquired and maintained the respect they truly deserve through years of evaluation and criticism. Lets take each account for what its worth and not what it lacks!
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