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Jeffrey H. Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic

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Gilgamesh Flood

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Compositional and editorial history of the epic across its textual stages

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Tablet XI belongs to a developed Gilgamesh composition whose flood episode is studied within the evolving Mesopotamian flood-text tradition.

Tablet XI and Atrahasis share plot, motifs, and close verbal material, indicating literary dependence or use of a closely related textual tradition.
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Critical and compositional scholarship reconstructs how the flood episode entered the evolving Gilgamesh epic, while the exact editorial history remains interpretive.

Scholars continue to reconstruct when and how the flood account entered the evolving Gilgamesh epic and which recension or source stream its editor used.
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George Smith’s historical publication documents the modern Genesis comparison, but the listed sources do not establish that the surviving K.3375 copy was Genesis’s line-by-line source.

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The claim that the Gilgamesh flood episode directly supplied Genesis is documented in the comparison tradition but is not established as a line-by-line dependence on the surviving tablet.

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