GILGAMESH Vs GENESIS: In our society, which is overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian, students often find it difficult to compare Bible stories with tales from other cultures, because our own belief system is wrapped up in the prior, and it is hard for many of us to go against our traditional faith to evaluate them objectively. But in a comparison of the Biblical book of Genesis with the ancient Sumerian text, Epic of Gilgamesh, many parallels suggest that …showed first 75 words of 1690 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1690 total…response to this dilemma. Sumerians seem to have dealt with the inevitability of death through a glorification of being alive. The Hebrews, on the other hand, found their own “salvation” in community and tradition, which insured a consistent expression of faith despite the deaths of individual member and this still remains true today. In this way the Jewish faith is able to truly bridge life and death in a way that the Sumerians could not.