Not much hope for the hereafter for Gilgamesh

Redlands Daily Facts | August 2, 2007| | Copyright

This week: The Professor begins his annual summer series of articles on religious literature. This year he will consider the religious views of the great epic poems of the West. This week: Gilgamesh and the obnoxious gods of ancient Iraq.

Eighteen centuries before Christ, 800 years before King David sat on the throne of Israel and four centuries before Moses argued with pharaoh, the priest scribes of Mesopotamia wrote down in the Akkadian tongue the epic poem of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of the city of Uruk. One part man and two parts a god, Gilgamesh built the huge walls of his city and ...

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