Wesley Huff

Yeah. How close is it? In some ways, it's very close, and in other ways, it's not. So that's the story of Upnupishtim, which is kind of a side story in the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh realizes his mortality and he's trying to find eternal life.

And there's this guy, Upnupishtim, who he runs into, who tells him this story of the gods gifted him with eternal life because he saved all the animals on a boat. And so there are actually parallels between that and say the Genesis 6 Noah arc story in like making a big boat, putting all the animals on it, and then they get off and they make a sacrifice to, in his case, the gods in the Bible God.

And there's this guy, Upnupishtim, who he runs into, who tells him this story of the gods gifted him with eternal life because he saved all the animals on a boat. And so there are actually parallels between that and say the Genesis 6 Noah arc story in like making a big boat, putting all the animals on it, and then they get off and they make a sacrifice to, in his case, the gods in the Bible God.

And there's this guy, Upnupishtim, who he runs into, who tells him this story of the gods gifted him with eternal life because he saved all the animals on a boat. And so there are actually parallels between that and say the Genesis 6 Noah arc story in like making a big boat, putting all the animals on it, and then they get off and they make a sacrifice to, in his case, the gods in the Bible God.

And I think what you're looking at there is probably a cultural remembrance of something that did take place. And so you have these adjacent cultures who they're existing within this framework of the ancient Near East. And you're seeing these kind of parallel echoes of things that actually did happen. So there are definite parallels.

And I think what you're looking at there is probably a cultural remembrance of something that did take place. And so you have these adjacent cultures who they're existing within this framework of the ancient Near East. And you're seeing these kind of parallel echoes of things that actually did happen. So there are definite parallels.

And I think what you're looking at there is probably a cultural remembrance of something that did take place. And so you have these adjacent cultures who they're existing within this framework of the ancient Near East. And you're seeing these kind of parallel echoes of things that actually did happen. So there are definite parallels.

But I think sometimes people look at those and they overplay that. So one of the examples I often give is Advil and arsenic both come in pill form and have an A on the bottle. But it's not the similarities that matter in that case, it's the differences.

But I think sometimes people look at those and they overplay that. So one of the examples I often give is Advil and arsenic both come in pill form and have an A on the bottle. But it's not the similarities that matter in that case, it's the differences.

But I think sometimes people look at those and they overplay that. So one of the examples I often give is Advil and arsenic both come in pill form and have an A on the bottle. But it's not the similarities that matter in that case, it's the differences.

And so if you look at the differences, there are significant differences in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Upnupishtim story and the Genesis 6 story. If for another reason, then the Noah arc story is a very small part of the book of Genesis. And the story of Upnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a little bit more stretched out.

And so if you look at the differences, there are significant differences in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Upnupishtim story and the Genesis 6 story. If for another reason, then the Noah arc story is a very small part of the book of Genesis. And the story of Upnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a little bit more stretched out.

And so if you look at the differences, there are significant differences in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Upnupishtim story and the Genesis 6 story. If for another reason, then the Noah arc story is a very small part of the book of Genesis. And the story of Upnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a little bit more stretched out.

It has more to do with the theme of what Gilgamesh is doing in his epic. But there are obviously parallels between that because these are both ancient Near Eastern stories and they're products of their day. In the same way that I think you see parallels between some of the New Testament gospels and other ancient Greco-Roman biography.

It has more to do with the theme of what Gilgamesh is doing in his epic. But there are obviously parallels between that because these are both ancient Near Eastern stories and they're products of their day. In the same way that I think you see parallels between some of the New Testament gospels and other ancient Greco-Roman biography.

It has more to do with the theme of what Gilgamesh is doing in his epic. But there are obviously parallels between that because these are both ancient Near Eastern stories and they're products of their day. In the same way that I think you see parallels between some of the New Testament gospels and other ancient Greco-Roman biography.

in that these are products of ancient history, and so they're gonna look like other ancient historical writings that kind of parallel around that.

in that these are products of ancient history, and so they're gonna look like other ancient historical writings that kind of parallel around that.

in that these are products of ancient history, and so they're gonna look like other ancient historical writings that kind of parallel around that.

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