Think about the similarities between the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh an

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Think about the similarities between the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Noah’s Ark in the Old Testament.
For your initial post, start a new thread and answer the following questions: 
Which features appear in both stories? Are there any differences? If so, what are they?
Why do you think these stories are so similar?
From a historian’s perspective, why do the existence of these similarities matter?
Your response should consist of at least two paragraphs of several sentences each and be around 250 words in length. 
At the end of your initial post, write two discussion questions. A good discussion question asks “how” and “why,” probes the topic with seriousness and depth, keeps the discussion going, and cannot be answered with a simple “yes” or “no.” Please come up with questions that require your classmates to engage in thoughtful, in-depth, historically informed reflections rather than simply personal opinions. The following are examples of poordiscussion questions: “How important is religion in your own life?” or “What would you have behaved if you had lived during such-and-such time?” 
Responses to classmates: For each of your replies, select one discussion question from a classmate and respond to it in paragraph form.  https://web.archive.org/web/19990221091328/http://puffin.creighton.edu/theo/simkins/tx/Flood.html

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