In the Gilgamesh epic, Utnapishtim sacrifices after the deluge: "Then I sent out everything in all directions and sacrificed (a sheep). ... The post-flood sacrifice in the Gilgamesh epic gives us only an aimless sacrifice lacking the sophisticated sequencing of Noah's (and generally Hebrew) sacrifice. The gods of Gilgamesh are famished for food and thus clamor over the sacrifice. ... It is clear that the sacrificial account of Noah's story could not have been borrowed from the Gilgamesh epic. Rather, we should assume that the Gilgamesh sacrifice must be borrowed from the ancient Hebr...

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Everyone has heard the story of the flood. Especially if you grew up in the church and you went to Sunday school. Children would hear this story taught in their Sunday school classes in which God flooded the whole earth and the only one who survived was Noah and his family with a pair of every liv...

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