Compare the Flood/Utnapistim to the Flood/Noah

The gilgamesh's epic has always been a particularly interesting for the christians from the time it was discovered during the the mid of the nineteenth century amongst the great library ruins in the nineveh, with its story of the humongous flood that is almost at par with the flood which took place during Noah's time.

The remaining part of the epic, that might possibly date back to the third millinia B.C, does not have much value in the eyes of the Christian because it is more concerned with the traditional polythesistic myths which are related to the pagan worshipers of the era.

Still, a few Christians work on the creation ideas and the concept of afterlike which is exhibited in the epic. Even those scholars who are secular have accepted the similarities between the accounts of the babylonian, phoenician, and hebrew, even though not all of them deem these connections other than simply a mythology which is shared (O'Brien, p. 61).

Uptill now, there are a vareity of stories regarding floods that have arisen from old sources and can be seen to scattered all over the globe. Stories have been found on cuneifom tablets that are composed of a few of the writings that are considered to be the earliest writings and the many similarities.

The story exposed on cuneiform tablets, including some survived the initial writing, there are obvious similarities. The Cuneiform form of script was fashioned by the Sumerians and carried on by the Akkadians. Assyrian and Babylonian are Akkadian's two dialects and both of them have accounts of flood. Even though there were dissimilarities in the flood accounts of the Sumerians (the original ones) and the later coming Assyrian and Babylonian, still the are very near to the accounts presented in the Genesis of the great Flood. ...