Talk:Noah's Ark

Gilgamesh flood was only written 7th-9th centuary bc
Gilgamesh flood myth is vopied from the atrahasis epic the bible has no evidence of literally borrowing and flood myths aren’t unique 176.72.71.133 (talk) 17:34, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


 * What do you want to specifically change in the article, and what reliable source(s) can you cite to support such change?s Donald Albury 21:03, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The are several major mistakes in the current page. The Bible did not 'borrow' from the Gilgamesh saga. If you actually read the earliest texts you will see there are significant differences between the Biblical narrative and the Gilgamesh saga.
 * Secondly, the Biblical account was written before the saga of Gilgamesh.
 * Thirdly there is copious amount of evidence showing that a cataclysmic flood occurred and indeed covered the world. Mass fossil graveyards show animals bent into positions that are reminiscent of drowning. The fact that so many creatures were buried alive, shows the event was singular and incredible amounts of liquid materials were involved.
 * The current page is nothing but a one-sided attack on Christian content. 124.170.118.227 (talk) 14:18, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * IP, while you are correct that the current standard version of The Epic of Gilgamesh is that from the Library of Ashurbanipal, and therefore dates to the first millennium BCE, if you refer to our page on the Epic, you will see that there is evidence for a cohesive narrative version dating back to the Old Babylonian tablets (ca. 1800 BCE), and evidence for fragmentary poems and bits of narrative dating farther back to the Third Dynasty of Ur. Whatever one's thoughts about faith, I know of no scholars who contend that the biblical narrative was composed anything like this early.  I'll leave the flood for another day, but suffice it to say that there is not a scholarly consensus for the position you put forward.  Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 14:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll deal with that standard YEC nonsense. See.
 * That should be the end of this discussion as talk pages aren't meant for discussing the Ark, floods, etc. Doug Weller  talk 15:17, 26 June 2024 (UTC)