The Epic of Gilgamesh has been of interest to Christians ever since it was discovered in the mid-19th century among the ruins of the great library of Nineveh, due to its account of a universal flood that bears significant parallels to Noah's Flood. The rest of the epic, which possibly dates back to the third millennium BC, contains little of value for Christians, as it deals with typical polytheistic myths associated with the pagan peoples of that era. However, some Christians have studied the ideas about creation and the afterlife presented in the epic. Even secular scholars have recognized the parallels between the Babylonian, Phoenician, and Hebrew accounts, although not all are willing to describe the connections as anything more than shared mythology.
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