Epic Of Gilgamesh

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History

 

Written by:

Leonard Z

 

Date added:

July 30, 2010

 

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University

 

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A

 

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3 / 780

 

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After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Akkadian version, in the seventh century B.C. Later, the story of Gilgamesh was lost to human memory, except for occasional fragments. The story was rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century A.D., and made available in translation to German by the beginning of the twentieth century...
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People were especially amazed when they read this most ancient of stories, and realized that the flood story in Gilgamesh was a close analogue of the flood story in the Hebrew Bible. The Epic of Gilgamesh touches people profoundly after so many centuries because it is about issues that touch all people in all times--the anguish of loss and death for all human beings As Siduri the barmaid tells Gilgamesh: "'You will never find that life for which you are looking...
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