Is the Gilgamesh Flood the Basis of the Biblical Flood in the Book of G

Is the Gilgamesh Flood the Basis of the Biblical Flood?â â   â â Genesis of the Old Testament records an overall Flood at an opportune time throughout the entire existence of human progress. Tablet 11of the Sumero-Babylonian variant of the epic of Gilgamesh likewise records an all out Flood of the whole earth ahead of schedule in mankind’s advancement. Let’s look at the two to decide whether one could be the reason for the other.  Nels M. Bailkey in Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilganesh to St. Augustine, remarks on the resemblances and need thereofâ between the two variants:  The hitting likenesses with the later Hebrew story are very clear, however the incredible bay between them should be underlined: the Hebrew adaptation has been totally lectured. In the Hebrew record the Flood is sent in light of transgression, and the saint is spared on the grounds that he is noble. In the Sumero-Babylonian form the legend is spared out of minor preference and the divine beings send the Flood, as we gain from a different record, on the grounds that their rest has been upset: â€Å"oppressive has become the clatter of humanity, by their mayhem they forestall sleep.† Above all, the one incomparable upright God of the Hebrews stands out from the pack of frail, pugnacious, avaricious divine beings who â€Å"cowered like dogs† within the sight of the Flood and who later â€Å"like flies assembled around the sacrificer.† (10)  Alexander Heidel in his book, The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels, gives a foundation to the overcomer of the Sumero-Babylonian Flood, Utnapishtim:  Utnapishtim was the child of Ubara-Tutu, the Otiartes, or, rather, Opartes of Berossus. As indicated by Berossus, the downpour saint was the tenth Prediluvian lord in Babylonia. Additionally in the Sumerian engraving he I... ...its acknowledgment by God †these are rehashed in the two records of the Flood.  WORKS CITED  Bailkey, Nels M. Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilganesh to St. Augustine. Third release. Lexington, MA: D.C.Heath and Co., 1987.  Gardner, John and John Maier. Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sin-leqi-unninni variant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.  Harris, Stephen L. â€Å"Gilgamesh.† The Humanist Tradition in World Literature. Ed. Stephen Harris. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1970.  Heidel, Alexander. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.  Ignatius Holy Bible. Overhauled Standard Version, Catholic Edition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966.  Sandars. N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Penguin Books, 1972.  Â