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[re: the relative ages of Gilgamesh and the Bible]

ACF:sorry to burst your bubble, but Gilgamesh is not older than Genesis. Moses assembled the first five books of the Old Testament from much older scrolls and tablets. Gilgamesh is copied from those, and badly.

[Dear Anonymous,
As the early Israelites originated in the area of Mesopotamia, it is not unreasonable to assume that they borrowed from the mythology of that area when they began assembling their own religion. The kingship of Gilgamesh has been dated to the 26th century BCE and predates the writing of the Genesis account by much more than a thousand years. Moses, if he was indeed the one to write it, did use older texts to base Genesis upon but the texts used were Mesopotamian with a little Egyptian thrown in to fill in any blanks.]

ACF:Nope. it CLAIMS in the story to be that old, but the actual tablets are not. 2600 BC is before the flood, and there is nothing that survives from that era except the sphinx. YOU FAIL, but you knew that.

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