Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels
Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels

Author: Alexander Heidel

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226323985

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Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.

Old Testament Parallels
Old Testament Parallels

Author: Victor Harold Matthews

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780809137312

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In this newly revised and expanded second edition, Victor Matthews and Don Benjamin have gathered key ancient documents from Eastern Mediterranean traditions that provide a literary backdrop for Old Testament writings.