Background
The Epic of Gilgamesh has been of
interest to Christians ever since its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century
in the ruins of the great library at Nineveh, with its account of a universal
flood with significant parallels to the Flood of Noah's day.
The
rest of the Epic, which dates back to possibly third millennium B.C., contains
little of value for Christians, since it concerns typical polytheistic myths
associated with the pagan peoples of the time. However, some Christians have
studied the ideas of creation and the afterlife...
