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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology: Chapter IV. Miscellaneous Myths

Ancient MesopotamiaCuneiform WritingSamuel Noah KramerSumerian Mythology

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That the Biblical deluge story is not original with the Hebrew redactors of the Bible has been known now for more than half a century--from the time of the discovery and decipherment of the eleventh tablet of the Semitic Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh." The Babylonian deluge myth itself, however, is of Sumerian origin. For in 1914 Arno Poebel published and carefully translated a fragment consisting of the lower third of a six-column Sumerian tablet in the Nippur collection of the University…

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