Even the people who created the statues on Easter Island, which was the most isolated civilization on Earth, emerged from the Polynesian culture and retained elements of it. If people in one civilization see something they like in another civilization, they are more often than not going to take it and assimilate it into their own culture. No civilization emerges independantly, and in isolation from other civilizations, past and present to it. But the Greeks themselves took things from the Phonecian civilization, in particular the letters. The Roman civilization took many things from the Greek civilization and the Romans had taken so many elements from the ancient Greeks that it was called the Greco Roman empire. Another example is that the Aztec civilization in central America had many elements from the previous Mayan civilization and the Mayan civilization likewise took things from civilizations that came before it. But to suggest that the writers of the Book of Genesis plagerized the Epic of Gilgamesh is simplistic because most civilizations and religions take stories, knowledge, writing, concepts etc, from other civilizations and previous civilizations and the reworking of the Epic of Gilgamesh by different civilisations in Mesopotamia is a good example of that.įor example the Buddhist religion has a lot of elements from the Hindu religion because it emerged out of Hinduism in the region where it started. A lot of academics and other people have concluded that the writers of the Book of Genesis had plagerized the Epic of Gilgamesh and this has empowered opponents of the Bible. The first one is that it is the first story ever written and the second is that it has parallels with the flood story in the Book of Genesis. The Epic of Gilgamesh is significant for two reasons. The Epic of Gilgamesh is based on King Gilgamesh of Uruk in about 2700 BC. The standard synthetic version is the 12 tablet Akkadian version of the poem found at the 25 000 tablet library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (668-627) BC at Nineveh. The author of the original story is unkown and the story was reworked by different cultures in Mesopotamia including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and the Assyrians. The earliest version of it was written on Sumerian tablets, written in cuniform, found in Nippur in Mesopotamia and it was written down about 2000 BC. The Epic of Gilgamesh, is perhaps the first story written down. The Epic of Gilgamesh can be read on this site, This Wikipedia article can give you general background on the Epic of Gilgamesh,
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