Mr. Tokar
CHW3M1
19 September 2013
Noah’s Ark vs. The Story of the Flood The Story of Noah’s Ark and The Story of the Great Flood are very alike in many ways. They both distinct characteristics of the ark, or person, the events that took place are also parallel to each other. The Sumerian version of the story is in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Hebrew/Christian version of the flood story is told in the book of Genesis .In both cases God chose an honorable men that he thought would be capable of carrying out the task. A verse form the bible expresses one of the reasons God choice Noah, “Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. (Genesis6:9). The Gods must have thought Utnapishtim was also a great and honorable man because Ea appeared in his dream and warned him about the flood. Both Noah and Utnapishtis’s families were also saved from the flood. “The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great...” (Genesis 6:5) “The uproar of mankind is intolerable…” (Gilgamesh 108) In both stories The God/s wanted to flood the world because of the …show more content…
”Tear down your house and build a boat…then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.”(Gilgamesh 108) “Make yourself an ark…and of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two every