Paul Aberion English 303 West Lit Backgrounds Professor Beth Haddrell 10/ 20/ 03' Revision Paper The Flood Stories: The Validity Debate Continues In the Epic of Gilgamesh, it articulates how, "For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts" (Sandars 111). Alternatively, in the Old Testament, it simply states, "All the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of …showed first 75 words of 2301 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2301 total…place emphasis on. The Old Testament is more simple and organized to the expressively written Epic of Gilgamesh and Metamorphoses. The main distinction have to do with spiritual diversity between distinct cultures. It is because of these variations in writing and technique, that each of these poems have acquired and maintained the respect they truly deserve through years of evaluation and criticism. Lets take each account for what its worth and not what it lacks!