Gilgamesh Tablet 10 Reading Response

     There were multiple topics I noticed in this tablet of Gilgamesh. The first was that Utnapishtim's story of becoming immortal was very similar to Noah's Arch. In the story of Noah's Arch, it is said that god was angry with the world because the people in it were being greedy and corrupt and untrustworthy. He decided to send down a flood to get rid of all of the bad people. But he told one man, a good man, to make a giant boat and fill it with 2 of every animal. So when the flood was over, 2 of every animal and Noah had survived. 
     The story of Utnapishtim was written: "...abandon your house, abandon what you posses, abandon your house and build a boat instead. Seek life instead of riches, save yourself. Take with you, on the boat, an instance of each living thing so that they may be safe from obliteration in the flood. Perform the construction of the boat in care." With the help of his town Utnapishtim build a humongous boat. This is what was written about the flood: "In the early hours of the next morning dawning there was the noise of Adad in the clouds that rose and filled the morning sky with balckness." "From time to time Annunaki blazed terrible light. Then the rain came down in floods." After the horrible flood Utnapishtim released birds to see if one of them could find a place to settle itself. When a raven finally found such a place, he released all the birds. 
     Don't these stories sounds similar? And it seems like the bible stories may not all be original, because the Epics of Gilgamesh were written before the bible. It also seems like the number seven is a very popular number. The epic says:  "Six days and nights the storm went on this way, the South Wind flooding over the mountains and valleys until the seventh day when the storm birth labor subsided at last, the storm subsided at last." Also: "...and then on the seventh day I freed a dove." And: "The first wafer is dry as dust, the second is only less so than the first, the third is soggy and rotten, the fourth wafer is white in the crust, there are spots and mold on the fifth, the sixth wafer looks almost as if it is fresh; and the seventh-but it is then that you awoke." 

     I think what I found out from this tablet is that the bible got its ideas not only from Jesus and God but also looked at other literature and adapted it to fit into the Christian religion.