Enuma Elish

Enuma Elish

The Babylonian Creation Epic
Reading Year: 2023
Book # 16
Great Books
Pages: 107
Translation by Timothy J. Stephany
Year: 1100 BC
Date Started: May 14, 2023
Date Finished: May 15, 2023
2h 50m 20s

My Thoughts

The Babylonian myths of creation and the flood. The flood/deluge story showed up in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It’s interesting to learn about the ideas of why humans were created (to labor for the gods) and the reason for the flood (to wipe out said humans because they were making too much noise and disrupting the gods). In the intro, Timothy J. Stephany made a connection from Babylonian gods to the book of Esther – Marduk / Mordechai and Ishtar / Esther. I hadn’t heard of that connection before.

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