Ancient text
Atrahasis
An Akkadian composition combining an account of the creation of humanity with an account of a flood sent against it.
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Document
Source- Culture
- Mesopotamian
- Language
- Akkadian
- Approximate date
- Old Babylonian period
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- unreviewed
Relationships to biblical passages
Interpretationflood motifSimilarity only
Like Genesis, Atrahasis places the creation of humanity and a subsequent flood within a single narrative arc. Recorded as a structural similarity only.
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