Gilgamesh, Epic

Heidel, A, 1946. The Gilgamesh Epic and New Testament Parallels. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 

George, A. 2003. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, vo. 1. Oxford Oxford University Press. 

Though historically a king of Babylonia, Gilga-mesh has served as a source of legends. The 2000 bc Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, refers to scorpions as the guardians of hell ... 

Do we build a house to last forever The Epic of Gilgamesh Q)... 

The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving masterpiece of the Sumerian dynasty of ancient Mesopotamia, is at least 1500 years older than Homer. From the dawn of recorded history, its tale of friendship and heroism resonates with the eternal concerns of mankind bereavement, ageing, death, the dream of immortality. These themes recur throughout... 

In this chapter, we will look closely at the many layered and diverse symbolism of the rose beginning with perhaps the earliest Indo-Hittite reference to the rose on Tablet X of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Here the Mesopotamian Noah tells Gilgamesh ... 

Although I do not think epic an appopriate label, I will maintain it as a means of distinguishing the compilation of the larger story from its component pieces, especially since all extant versions of the Gilgamesh stories other than the Standard Babylonian, whether in Akkadian or Sumerian, were written down in this period, so to refer to it as the Old Babylonian version is both confusing and erroneous in that they are M Old Babylonian in date. 

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