some adamant bible believers say Epic was taken from bible, but I found that Moses took it from existing literature. Funny thing is few could read and write so how could they have known this
in 1800's a young scholar re-discovered stone tablets of poetry which were based on Arcadian stories of 1800 to 2000 BC tales based in what is modern day Iran, Iraq and Syria
check this out...
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/classes/Jbutler/T389/ITHistoryOutline.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030102109.html
George Smith, a self-taught Assyriologist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British Museum, going through a pile of Layard's clay tablets. Suddenly, Smith realized that he was reading about "a flood storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land."
2007-05-28
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