Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh tells the story of Noah’s Flood When the tablets were found of the story of Gilgamesh by Mr. Rawlson, he did not have any idea what he was looking at, but he knew that it was old and valuable for History. George Smith on the other hand was fascinated by the tablets and he began to study the writing on them. Mr. Smith found out that he could read parts of the language …

…was to assist the gods, not the people. The people had become a distractive nuisance for the gods. The gods, in "Gilgamesh", would not have seen a need for the flood if the people were only destructive to themselves without being bothersome to the gods.The motivation in the Bible was to save the people. In contradction to "Gilgamesh", God knew that the corrupt and violent lifestyles of the people would end in ultimate death.