Comparing Gilgamesh And The Ten Commandments

We often look at the Bible as one of humanity’s most important texts, where we gather most of our morals, information and logic. The Bible is over 1,500 years old and has influenced billions of people. However, many historians have looked at the Bible’s texts and found that some of its verses and stories are closely related to religious texts that existed far before the Bible was originally created. With this new study we must look closely at three key stories within the Bible to see how closely they relate to the previous religious texts. We must closely look at the stories of The Garden of Eden, The Great flood and The Ten Commandments in order to determine the similarities with other religious texts. The story of the Garden of Eden has many related aspects to the story of the Epic of

This religious text is the Egyptian Book of the dead, which was written in around 2600 B.C. In the Bible, the Ten Commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, and were written on stone tablets, allegedly by the hand of God himself. This was thought to take place around 1490 B.C. However, the Negative Confession in Egyptian Book of the Dead is very similar to the Ten Commandments written in the Bible. Some close examples include when the Book of the Dead wrote, “I have not blasphemed.” (The Book of the Dead, The Negative Confession) and in The Bible God said “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain” (Holy Bible, Exodus 20.7). Another example is when the Book of the Dead says, “I have not committed adultery, and I have not lain with men” (The Book of the Dead, The Negative Confession) and God says in The Bible, “Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Holy Bible, Exodus 20.14). These are even more examples that the Bible could have stolen from other religious