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The Epic of Gilgamesh The Cuneiform Text of The Epic of Gilgamesh M10-09 The Epic of Gilgamesh History of the Text History of the Text • the Sumerian epic is now lost epic • most important extant versions of The The Epic of Gilgamesh: Epic of Gilgamesh – Old Babylonian version (ca. 1800 BCE) – Assyrian version (ca. 700 BCE) • modern editors have reassembled the story from fragments such as these • in this context, coherence is impossible The Epic of Gilgamesh The Hero Gilgamesh The Hero Gilgamesh • Gilgamesh is part-mortal part-immortal • Gilgamesh – one-third human, two-thirds god – from this the story presumes that he will die • complication: he’s better than anyone around him and so he bullies everyone M10-10 The Epic of Gilgamesh The Hero Gilgamesh The Hero Gilgamesh • cf. Gilgamesh I.67-8, 71-72 The young men of Uruk he harries without warrant, Gilgamesh lets no son go free to his father . . . It is he who is shepherd of Uruk-the-Sheepfold, but Gilgamesh let no daughter go free to her mother. • so the people of Uruk complain to the gods M10-10 The Epic of Gilgamesh Nephilim Nephilim • “sons of God” (bene elohim, Psalms 29:1) – cf. Genesis 6:4 There were giants (nephilim) in the earth in those nephilim days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men w