A great rain covered the land and mountains with water, although some water emerged from beneath the earth in the biblical account (Genesis 7:11).Both arks had a single door and at least one window.Noah’s was rectangular Utnapishtim’s was square. Both arks were huge, although their shapes differed.A righteous man (Genesis 6:9) was directed to build an ark to save a limited and select group of people and all species of animals (Noah received his orders directly from God, Utnapishtim from a dream).God (or several gods in the Gilgamesh account) decided to destroy humankind because of its wickedness and sinfulness (Genesis 6:5–7).Here is a more extensive listing of the similarities and differences: Ea, believed by the Babylonians to be the god who created the earth, selected Ut-Napishtim (or Utnapishtim) to construct a six-story square ark.ĭuring the mid-nineteenth century, this complete “Epic of Gilgamesh” (from 650 BC) was unearthed in some ruins at Nineveh’s great library, and the depth and breadth of similarities and differences became evident. These Chaldean tablets, from the city of Ur (modern-day southern Iraq), describe how the Babylonian God Ea decided to end all life except for the ark dwellers with a great flood.
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Tablets containing the full story, however, date to approximately 650 BC, or well after the Genesis account (c. Portions of the Gilgamesh account (Chaldean Flood Tablets) have been found dating back to 2000 BC or earlier. One major point of clear agreement is that a global flooding disaster occurred in ancient times. There are other similarities between the Gilgamesh flood account and the biblical flood account. In both accounts, samples from all species of animals were to be on the ark, and birds were used after the rains to determine if flood waters had subsided anywhere to reveal dry land. There are many similarities between the Gilgamesh flood account and the biblical flood account (Genesis 6-8), beginning most importantly with God choosing a righteous man to build an ark because of an impending great flood.