'The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis'

' any(prenominal) people hope that, genesis, is the original level of creationism. maybe that touch is so wide-spread, because some(prenominal) p arnts and teachers teach children that the ledger is the blueprint to existence. The similarities between, The epos of Gilgamesh, and, Genesis, show that the aline news report of creationism was create verbally long earlier the Hebrews. The original tale had the characters of Enkidu, Shamhat and Aruru. The Bible whitethorn actually be a decree of this ancient Mesopotamian work.\nThe graduation exercise similarity supporting(a) the theory that these be the same story, is the represendation in which these custody were created. In Gilgamesh, the beau idealdess of birth, Aruru, grip a put together of clay to rack up Enkidu. The following adduce depicts how she made him, Aruru buckram her hands, she pinched take out clay, she tossed it upon the steppe, she created valiant Enkidu in the steppe (Gilgamesh 92-95). In Genes is, it was God who similarly created pass, the showtime man. According to Genesis 2:7, He made it from the distribute of the ground. Then he inklinged into it the breath of life. And man became a living person (Genesis 2:7 21-22). Both of these hands were made in a promised land of sorts. The dottyerness that Enkidu called home, may not await as idyllic as The tend of Eden to some readers, but to him it was perfect. Enkidu browse the land with gazelles at the water hole, scarce as ex sh ared his tooth root with animal companions. As told in the biblical world, Jehovah sent the animals to accompany transport (Lewis et al 14).\nEnkidu and Adam were naked and wild prior to encounter the women in their tales, and both(prenominal) men set out ashamed by it once they hold knowledge of what is deemed good and wrong. Women play a very diametric role in both of these stories, much portrayed as wise. The ii women are; Shamhat, the harlot, and Eve, the first woman. Alth ough the women were believed to be wise and level-headed, the two men are eventually bedamn because of a woman. Perhaps this is why Enkidu curses... '