Originally posted by Marduk
its an akkadian text
the bible is babylonian
It's a babylon text written about an akkadian figure , based on earlier akkadian texts.
that's why the name is different, but the stories are very similar.
the bible, in written form, is babylonian. the contents predate babylon, not only in mainstream texts of their time, but as an oral tradition amongst the slave populations and common people; something you have already admitted existed but which you seem to think now, could not have possibly had their own thoughts on the matter or bothered to recall. did you think they didn't talk about the events between themselves nor remembered how the events actually transpired instead of the royal versions?
the epic of gilgamesh is a story not a factual recording of events
the character Gilgamesh is based on the real king Gilgamesh who did not have gods as parents
the epic of gilgamesh is a factual recording of events with dramatization added. i didn't say his parents were gods. i said he was the same as nimrod and it appears nimrod was modified after he was born. i believe this is hinted at in the epic of gilgamesh, in the form of enkidu, who is his exact carbon copy, created to fix something that was wrong with "gilgamesh"
I have already proven that idea to be totally false
for Nimrod to have been gilgamesh you have to explain why some of the cities he is claimed to have an affinity with in the bible didn't exist in the time of Gilgamesh
the cities you refer to would be contingent on the accepted timeframe of gilgamesh, vs. the actual timeframe of gilgamesh. accepted does not necessarily mean accurate. Interesting that Enmerkar is at Uruk, though, isn't it? "The Sumerian King List makes Enmerkar the second king of Uruk after the Flood which would place his reign at the time when the building of Enki's temple at Eridu reached its apogee." (Eridu = Babel, where the Tower of Babel was built)
you have not succesfully linked nimrod to gilgamesh
www.ancientdays.net...
you have not even linked nimrod or enmerkar to gilgamesh
faculty.mdc.edu...
therefore any claims that anyone was modified are rubbish
the bible is the only text that Nimrod appears in
It's language, Marduk. You know how language varies over time and between one culture and another?
[edit on 8-4-2007 by undo]



