Is Noah's Ark a Plagiarized Story? | #shorts #cc #gilgamesh #deconstructingchristianity #history

YES...I meant 2,000 BC, therefore 1,000 years before Genesis and the Old Testament lol 🤦‍♂️ I Said that first part funnily.

"The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text" c. 2100–1200 BC (source via Brandão 2020 pg 23)

This is a vid with some background on what the tablets were about. But as we will get into, the Noah's Ark story is legit detail for detail ripped from the Sumerian Enuma Elish. The next video I post will be all about a side by side comparison. Only one key difference really stands out.

People will use this to say "See a flood really did happen! Because another ancient culture talked about it!" But that's not necessarily the case Gilgamesh is a recognized epic, mythical. The fact that the story was then repeated into Judaism does not make it more factual, it keeps it as an allegorical story. A foundation myth.

It's important to remember the early semitic people were nomadic, and sometimes captives to other cultures. The Babylonian exile, and earlier stories from the Sumerian epics would have played a key role in establishing their own religion.

Hence why we see early Judaism as a polytheistic religion that widdles into a monotheist one.
- JeGaysus

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[JeGaysus]

YES...I meant 2, 000 BC, therefore 1, 000 years before Genesis and the Old Testament lol 🤦‍♂️ I Said that first part funnily.

"The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text" c. 2100–1200 BC (source via Brandão 2020 pg 23)

This is a vid with some background on what the tablets were about. But as we will get into, the Noah's Ark story is legit detail for detail ripped from the Sumerian Enuma Elish. The next video I post will be all about a side by side comparison. Only one key difference really stands out.

People will use this to say "See a flood really did happen! Because another ancient culture talked about it!" But that's not necessarily the case Gilgamesh is a recognized epic, mythical. The fact that the story was then repeated into Judaism does not make it more factual, it keeps it as an allegorical story. A foundation myth.

It's important to remember the early semitic people were nomadic, and sometimes captives to other cultures. The Babylonian exile, and earlier stories from the Sumerian epics would have played a key role in establishing their own religion.

Hence why we see early Judaism as a polytheistic religion that widdles into a monotheist one.
- JeGaysus

[eddyangstman]

the anthropologist in me loves how many ancient stories and myths incorporate worldwide floods makes you wonder why. and of course gilgamesh is the first example we've seen but i do wonder if there were stories before it that also had a flood myth or if gilgamesh was a sort of trendsetter.

[KaityKat]

i like how in Noah's flood it was corruption and sinners but in gilgamesh's flood, the gods were just annoyed at us existing

[Qabim]

This is the equivalent of being upset with your neighbors and sending a nuclear bomb to get rid of them

[Aloddff]

When the first English Assyriologist found tablets describing the flood from the epic of Gilgamesh he stripped naked.

He was ecstatic that what he found was really important and to him it seemed to authenticate then account in genesis

When you say the Noah story is a parallel I’m more inclined to say that these things belong to the same broad Mediterranean Near East culture and the fact one comes before makes a compelling argument that the account of genesis is modelled on the earlier story. A copy. It’s not discussed often enough but the early books of the Old Testament a styled in a similar fashion to Homer and the Epic of Gilgamesh as to make it more memorable it takes on poetic features so a pre literate society can learn by repeated public recitations.

[cousinjake]

Yeah, and the things the Epic of Gilgamesh has to say about a certain usurping son of El with blue skin, lightening bolts, and well know Temper, who later goes on to own a garden and have a son in the middle east are Quite interesting

[acetronaut]

Is it possible they're both telling the same story? Not that one stole from the other, but one (or both) got some of the details messed up/embellished etc.

[j-chocolate-froggy]

The Bible wasn’t written when Noah’s ark happened, so even if the epic of Gilgamesh was “written” before the Bible Noah’s ark could’ve happened way earlier on and it made way to the epic of Gilgamesh (the book of Genesis was most likely written by Moses who came way after Noah’s ark)

[zalbion]

bro he looks like Jesus but if he was gay
and Jesus ain’t gay
and you shouldn’t be disrespecting Jesus

[angelofdeath]

Or maybe its a different version of the story about the SAME EVENT?? Noahs ark happened way before moses wrote about it

[dthreadjr]

Some people were meant to be this way so that others will know now how not to be

[soulzer]

This is very disrespectful to Jesus and u should not be doing things like this

[zachsmith_]

Plz stop disrespecting Jesus there are kids watching these and you may change a little kids believes

[mypugdog]

What do you mean by #deconstructingchristianity just accept the ducking religion

[interstateneek]

You can't be serious smdh What is this world coming to???