The Epic of Gilgamesh - Full Audio book (Unbridged)

[@ronniemann9014]

Thank u for this. Great job. Sidenote: Ooot·nah·pish·tim. Lol.

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[@FansyBLK]

Why ya'll going off in the comments lol. I just gotta read this garbage for school

[@marrycole5490]

Exactly these dudes writing essays and I’m struggling to pay attention so I can right paragraphs

[@raywinsor3948]

Notice, by way of comparison to the Genesis account of Noah’s flood, that lines 29 and 30 of the Gilgamesh Epic state about the Gilgamesh boat: “her dimensions all shall be equal: her length and breath (width) shall be the same”. Now line 57 tells us her height was ten rods (“ten rods the height of her sides”) and line 58 that the length of her sides was also ten rods, and if her length and breath (width) were the same, that means the ship was 10 rods long x 10 rods wide x 10 rods high (“her dimensions all shall be equal,” line 29). This vessel would not have been very stable according to modern shipbuilders. It would have looked like a square box 165 ft long by 165 ft wide by 165 ft high ( 1 rod = 16 ½ feet). Now, compare this to the dimensions of Noah’s Ark. ”And this is how you shall make it: Genesis 6:15: “ The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.” Shipbuilders have calculated that the dimensions of Noah’s Ark-300 cubits x 50 cubits x 30 cubits = 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high-would give a ratio of 6:1 which, with a rectangular barge or box-like shape and a very low center of gravity, would produce an extremely stable ship-so stable in fact that when they did experiments using a scaled-down prototype of the ark in a water tank (Laboratory) producing assimilated ocean waves, they found that the ark could upright itself from a 90 degree tilt. In other words, it was a rectangular barge shape 450 feet by 75 feet by 45 feet wide with a Catwalk on top. They concluded that a ship the size of Noah’s Ark built to the biblical specifications could easily have stayed afloat in 150-foot waves, much larger than average oceanic waves today . They estimated that the extra weight of all the animals, which would have put the ship lower in the water, would have made it even more stable. The U. S. battleship Oregon was built around the turn of the century using the same ratio (6:1) in construction as that of Noah’s Ark. There are many other significant differences between the two accounts. Noah’s Flood (Genesis 8: 7-11):Notice that the ship in the Gilgamesh Epic had 6 decks (line 60) whereas the ark in Genesis had 3 decks. Also, the flood in the Gilgamesh Epic lasted one week only (lines 127-130)-hardly sufficient to bring about a global catastrophic flood , as evidenced by the worldwide distribution of billions of fossils of all life-forms. The Genesis Flood, on the other hand, lasted 150 days (including the 40-days and 40-nights of rain) before the flood waters abated or receded. Finally, the Genesis account tells us that a dove brought a freshly plucked olive tree to Noah-tangible evidence that the flood waters had receded from the earth-whereas the Gilgamesh Epic tells us that the raven, which saw the waters receding and found food, did not return to the ship (line 156). How then did Uta-napishti know for sure that the flood waters had actually receded? He could only have assumed because the raven did not return that it saw the flood waters receding and found food, but he could not have known for certain, as did Noah, without some tangible evidence. Some skeptics and liberal theologians would have us believe that the Jews who wrote the Bible actually borrowed myths of Babylonian origin concerning the Genesis Flood from the Gilgamesh Epic (and others) to include with their own writings. However, the big problem with this assumption, as we have observed in our comparison of the details of the Epic of Gilgamesh with the Genesis Flood, is that the latter is far more reasonable and believable than the former. The details of the Gilgamesh Epic, which merely reflects the true record of the Bible, are the ones that have become corrupted and distorted, due to the limitations of human fallibility. Obviously stories handed down generation after generation that are not carefully preserved-particularly if they are handed down by word of mouth-do not improve with age. The truth is lost and the stories degenerate markedly. On the other hand, the biblical records have been handed down in written form (though there was a slight period of oral transmission in its early history), carefully preserved by the superintendency of God and have not been corrupted. Assuming our ancient past was very primitive and over a long period of time, we must ask ourselves how certain details of the story of the Great Flood or Deluge (we looked at same) could have been handed down from one primitive stone-aged culture to another purely by oral tradition, for hundreds of thousands of years, to be fully incorporated into the Gilgamesh Epic of the Babylonians. That such a thing could have happened for several thousand years is remotely conceivable. That it could have happened over a hundred thousand years is quite inconceivable. “The Gilgamesh Epic alone, rightly considered, administers a fatal blow to the concept of a vast antiquity for Noah” (quote by Dr. John C. Whitcomb in The Early Earth). Conclusion: The Epic of Gilgamesh is a distorted and corrupted reflection of divine revelation-the true record of the Genesis Flood.

[@shironyasha]

Big length/wide ratio is not for stability but for speed, the height of ship doesn't matter till ship has just one floor. But even with 6 decks, u can load the lowest deck with elephants, top deck with mice. Or might don't do this. Dimensions of the ship are too big, compare to waves. Center of gravity will be low enough anyway. More important, that center of buoyancy shoud be at the same vertical line with center of gravity. And cube-shape - is the easiest way to make so.

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[@raywinsor3948]

A friend, a highschool teacher, pointed out that The Gilgamesh Epic predated the biblical record of Noah’s Flood by centuries. Here is my answer to Paul. Yes, Paul, I knew you would say that but Genesis, written by Moses (the author of the first five books of the Bible) goes right back to the beginning of creation, so what I said and the details of each show, still holds true. Moses, who wrote Genesis, the book of beginnings, was writing under the inspiration of the Spirit of God (the supreme Author of scripture) so that Genesis is an accurate account of factual history going back to the original creation (most biblical historians recognize it as such) whereas the Gilgamesh Epic is a distorted corruption of divine revelation--of the true record of Genesis, as my careful and thorough comparison of the details of each clearly shows,. Certainly, the details of the biblical account, as I have shown , are far more reasonable and believable than the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic,. It makes more sense that Genesis is actually older--that it was the original and the pagan myths arose as distortions of that original account. While Moses lived long after the event, he probably acted as the editor of far older sources. For example, Genesis 10:19 gives matter-of-fact directions, ‘as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim’. These were the cities of the plain God destroyed for their extreme wickedness 500 years before Moses. Yet Genesis gives directions at a time when they were well-known landmarks, not buried under the Dead Sea. It is common to make legends out of historical events, but not history from legends. The liberals commonly assert that monotheism is a late evolutionary religious development. The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic. Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism. Stories of a gigantic global flood that nearly destroyed all humanity are found all over the globe (over 200 non-biblical historical accounts from tribes and nations around the world. The most detailed accounts come, as we would expect, from countries nearest to Ararat, where the Ark landed (Genesis 8:4). Other versions turn up in Persia (modern Iraq and Iran) , India, Burma, Indonesia, Sarawak, New Guina, Tahiti, Hawaii, China, Japan, Siberia, Australia (among the aborigines), and New Zealand (Maoris), Alaska (Eskimos), North America (Red Indians), South America, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, South Africa, Greece, Iceland, Lithuania, Finland, Lapland, Wales and Ireland. This agrees with Genesis 9:19: “These are the three sons of Noah, and, and of them was the whole earth overspread” ( or the populated). Of course,now the Bible has come to all these countries , but the “legends” were independent of the Bible, passed down over centuries in scores of tribal languages , and understandably corrupted and distorted in details of the original biblical account. Some details are very interesting. For example, Lxtlilxochitl , the native historian of the Aztecs, says that the world lasted 1716 days before it was destroyed by a flood (This figure is only 60 years different from the 1656 years which the Bible gives us by addition of the ages in Genesis 5--taking into consideration the overlapping of each subsequent generation by birth. The Chinese character (symbol) for a large ship is a combination of a figure 8 and the symbols for “mouths” or “persons” (recall Noah +Shem + Japheth + their wives = 8 “persons” aboard the Ark ). The Hottentots of South Africa believed they are descended from “Noh” , and the Hawaiians report a flood which only “Nu-u and his family were saved. I could mention many more that give details that parallel the biblical account, though clearly distorted and corrupted over generations of time. Liberals often claim that the Gilgamesh epic was embellished from a severe river flood, i.e. a local flood. This might work if there were similar flood legends only around the ancient near east. But there are thousands of such flood legends all around the world. Even the Australian Aborigines have legends of a massive flood, as do people living in the deep jungles near the Amazon River in South America. Dr Alexandra Aikhenvald, a world expert on the languages of that region, said: ‘… without their language and its structure, people are rootless. In recording it you are also getting down the stories and folklore. If those are lost a huge part of a people’s history goes. These stories often have a common root that speaks of a real event, not just a myth. For example, every Amazonian society ever studied has a legend about a great flood". This makes perfect sense if there were a real global Flood as Genesis teaches, and all people groups came from survivors who kept memories of this cataclysm. And keep in mind, as just pointed out, that It is common to make legends out of historical events, but not history from legends. Jesus accepted the historicity of the global flood of Noah (Matthew 24: 37-39; compare 2 Peter 3: 3-9), even comparing conditions in the world at His Second Coming to conditions in the wicked world of Noah.

[@ronniemann9014]

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[@shahrokhjoudi3602]

Are you narrating the story of gilgamesh or hestory of him.if you are about his story you may go to national geographic of jan-feb 2018 ,there You can find whatever you interest to know even about the under ground world so on under the title of : welcome to underworld .but if you are talking about his hestory ,well this is different.gilgamesh gone to mesopotamia and gathered scattered summerian people together about 4700 years ago and settled there the strong empire for summers which after his death continued by some empires who were in some dreamy tendencies like self gigamesha . that is the summary of what which is enough here here.thank you