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Why Do Some Scholars Think an Early Genesis Had No Flood Story?
The Epic of Gilgamesh sends a traveler to find Utnapishtim, who survived the flood, so the flood has already happened in that epic. Atrahasis is another version of the flood story. Sumerian king lists predate the introduction of a flood story.
Genesis was circulating in a version that had no flood story until someone put one in, probably around the sixth to fifth century BCE. Noah is a horticulturist in the oldest tales. Genesis four names progenitors of people who live in tents, play the lyre and the harp, and work in metals. The writer does not know the lines are supposed to all die.
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