The Gilgamesh Epic And The Old Testament
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has a lot of differences.
For examples, the world was created diversely, the gods treated their
people differently, the people believe in different perspectives, the
nature of the heroic. The quest for immortality. Conclusion, I can never
identify the central ideas or the philosophy of the works ....
Middle of paper
.... back to life.
I believed the most significant differences in both pieces is the
search for immortality. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, when Gilgamesh found the
miraculous plant that gives immortality to anyone who eats it, a great
snake steals from him. Like in the Old Testament, God ordered Adam and Eve
not to eat the Is there really an eternal life like what everyone is
searching for?
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the people considered natural
catastrophes to be work of the gods. The gods, they ....
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