So a chosen one (both Utnapishtim and Noah) was told to build a boat to survive this genocide and continue the human race. They were also allowed to bring their wife, children, and children’s wives. God also demanded a thing from these mortals; God told them to take every kind of species that existed in pairs of two and put them on this said boat (this boat was supposed to be very long). So then in both stories, a storm came around and destroyed everything; all of the trees, the agriculture, the buildings, and anything to do with man. The sea stretched on for miles and it took days for the boat to land; when the boat did land though they were both by a mountain.
He shows these humans love and gives them only one strict rule: not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the center of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve do not obey, and they eat from it because they gave into temptation. As a punishment for their disobedience, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Much later, out of anger with his creation, God punished the world with a great flood on the Earth, killing everything and everyone. However, he gave the world a second chance by saving everyone on Noah’s ark, along with two of every animal, showing that God is forgiving.
They were told to go work harder to survive by Zeus. He also took away the fire from mankind. For Prometheus he was punished by being bound to mount Caucasus forever. A eagle would come every night and eat his liver it will grow back each day and the torcher will continue for another thousand years but after a thousand years later a hero comes. He slays the Eagle and frees Prometheus from his chains.
Utnapishtim flood story: 1. What is the god’s motive for sending the flood? The great god was woken up and so when Enlil heard that he said to the other gods in council that he could no longer sleep. All the gods decided to exterminate all mankind. 2.
When the arcs are finished, the floods are delivered by rain and wipe out the remaining population of land creatures. When the rain has subsided, the heroes then release birds to find a resting place, and within days, after releasing doves, the birds do not return. In “The Story of the Flood” and “Noah and the Flood”, both arcs come to rest
Flood Comparison The flood of Gilgamesh and the flood of Noah’s Ark has many comparisons. Both of these floods symbolize rebirth and a new beginning for mankind, in addition to god’s wrath. In the epic of Gilgamesh the gods decided to demolish mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights because they didn’t like how loud the people were being. Utnapishtim was the one chosen to build a boat, because he was asked to regenerate mankind after the flood. In the bible, God decided that there was too much evil in the world and decided to flood the earth for forty days and nights.
The Genesis flood story is about God sending a flood, to destroy humans, but he tells one guy, Noah, to build an ark and save his family and every living animal. The Gilgamesh story is about a king who wants to be immortal, he needs the help from a man who survived a great flood. A flood that the gods had sent, he was the only one who survived, because one of the gods had help him to save humankind. Atrahasis story does the same things, they gods get mad and send a flood to destroy the earth, but on god told a man to save his family and one of each animal. These three stories have a lot in common.
In The Epic of Gilgamesh the gods planned to wipe out everyone, but the god Ea decides to warn Utnapishtim because he was a worshiper of him. So Ea finds favor in Utnapishtim. He delivers his warning to Ut when he is asleep and dreaming. Ea tells him to tear down his house and build a boat. Ea also tells him to lie to his neighbors so that they could help him build the boat.
They both want a night alone to sleep together so Nicholas tells John that he had a vision from God and there was a flood coming. Nicholas told him to set up three tubs on the roof, each with an ax. John, Alisoun, and Nick were all in their tubs, as soon as John fell asleep the two of them left. John woke up in panic thinking the flood was coming and cut his rope. After falling through the roof and hitting the ground, John broke his arm and was very embarrassed.
The Role of the Judges in Israel As little children, we were exposed to heroes that would always be there “to save the day” (i.e., Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman or Underdog). In the Old Testament Bible, there were many heroes called Judges. In the book of Judges, the Israelites began a series of cycles of sinning, worshiping idols, being punished, crying out for help, being rescued by a judge sent from God, obeying God for a while then falling back into idolatry (Life Application Bible, p.344). After the death of Moses, Joshua and the elders, the Israelites forgot the Lord God of their parents and befriended the nations surrounding them. Like their neighbors, the people gradually accepted their immoral practices and shunned the covenant relationship to the Lord.