[Springfield Reformer]

I tend to think the Gilgamesh story is the Akkadian version of the Hebrew original, with distortions added via “telephone game” effect.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

I tend to think the Gilgamesh story is the Akkadian version of the Hebrew original, with distortions added via “telephone game” effect.

Couldn’t have been, there were no Jewish peoples at the time. There were slaves in Egypt, but the Gilgamesh story predates the Pharoahs and slaves of Egypt. Ditto the Eden story. BTW, the story of Eden is quite different in its original form versus its Jewish form.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

I tend to think the Gilgamesh story is the Akkadian version of the Hebrew original, with distortions added via “telephone game” effect.

Yeah, you've got it right there... :-) exactly so ...