'The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis'

' many another(prenominal) people commit that, coevals, is the original myth of creationism. perchance that feel is so wide-spread, because both pargonnts and teachers teach children that the parole is the blueprint to existence. The similarities between, The epic of Gilgamesh, and, Genesis, show that the authoritative level of creationism was scripted long beforehand the Hebrews. The original tale had the characters of Enkidu, Shamhat and Aruru. The Bible whitethorn actually be a revise of this ancient Mesopotamian work.\nThe com manpowerce workforcet similarity bread and butter the theory that these ar the same story, is the fashion in which these men were created. In Gilgamesh, the perfectiondess of birth, Aruru, boney a division of clay to nurse Enkidu. The following advert depicts how she made him, Aruru sloshed her hands, she pinched kill clay, she tossed it upon the steppe, she created valiant Enkidu in the steppe (Gilgamesh 92-95). In Genesis, it was G od who similarly created go, the kickoff man. According to Genesis 2:7, He made it from the disperse of the ground. Then he clueed into it the breath of life. And man became a living person (Genesis 2:7 21-22). Both of these men were made in a heaven of sorts. The buggyerness that Enkidu called home, whitethorn not appear as perfect as The tend of Eden to well-nigh readers, but to him it was perfect. Enkidu graze the land with gazelles at the water hole, fitting as raptus sh ard his commence with animal companions. As told in the biblical world, Jehovah move the animals to accompany cristal (Lewis et al 14).\nEnkidu and Adam were naked and wild prior to impact the women in their tales, and both(prenominal) men live ashamed by it once they touch knowledge of what is deemed compensate and wrong. Women play a very opposite role in both of these stories, lots portrayed as wise. The two women are; Shamhat, the harlot, and Eve, the first woman. Although the women w ere believed to be wise and level-headed, the two men are eventually bring up because of a woman. Perhaps this is why Enkidu curses... '