Amazingly, the Noah's Ark story is almost word for word identical to the same story in the epic of Gilgamesh written by the Sumerians almost three thousand years earlier. Even the dimensions of the boat are the same. Just the names of the primary characters are different. Amazing, but true. The bible was writte around 800 B.C. The exodus from Egypt occured around 1100 BC (right after kind Tut). Abraham was about 2000 BC. The Epic of Gilgamesh is dated around 4000BC. The copy that exists was dated around 1500 BC.
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William Schaeffer
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