Teachings of the Catholic Church - Questions     

“Babylonian Myths and Biblical Revisions” (Enuma Elish and Gilgamesh)

1. What two Babylonian creation narratives are thought to have had an influence on the biblical creation narrative in the book of Genesis?

Please know some of the basic details of each account of both creation and the flood.  In other words, you should know:

2. Who are Marduk and Tiamat?  What happens to Tiamat?

3. Out of what does Marduk fashion human beings?  For what purpose does he create mankind?

4. In the epic of Gilgamesh, out of what is Gilgamesh’s rival Enkidu fashioned by the goddess Arurn?

5. What are the similarities between the Babylonian legend of Utnapishtim and the biblical account of Noah and the Great Flood?
 
 
 
 

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