The claim that the biblical flood narrative in Genesis is merely a repurposing of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh is not only misleading but fundamentally flawed. While both accounts share structural and thematic similarities—a flood, a boat, the...
The claim that Genesis 1–2 is merely a plagiarized version of the Enuma Elish (you read the Enuma Elish here!) is as unfounded as it is reductive. While it is true that both texts originate in the ancient Near East and address the theme of creation...