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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 right off the bat throughout the entire existence of human progress. Tablet 11of the Sumero-Babylonian rendition of the epic of Gilgamesh additionally records a complete Flood of the whole earth right on time in mankind’s advancement. Let’s analyze 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 forms:  The hitting similitudes with the later Hebrew story are very obvious, however the incredible inlet between them should be accentuated: the Hebrew adaptation has been totally admonished. In the Hebrew record the Flood is sent on account of transgression, and the saint is spared in light of the fact that he is honest. In the Sumero-Babylonian form the saint is spared out of simple preference and the divine beings send the Flood, as we gain from a different record, in light of the fact that their rest has been upset: â€Å"oppressive has become the noise of humanity, by their hullabaloo they forestall sleep.† Above all, the one incomparable exemplary God of the Hebrews diverges from the pack of feeble, contentious, 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 storm saint was the tenth Prediluvian ruler in Babylonia. Likewise 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 form. 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. Modified Standard Version, Catholic Edition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966.  Sandars. N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Penguin Books, 1972.  Â