The Epic of Atrahasis – a non-biblical account of the Great Flood (1600 BC)
The Epic of Atrahasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood. The text is known from several versions:
The Epic of Atrahasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood. The text is known from several versions:
Fragment 4 of Berossus' Babylonian History, which was published in 278 BCE, in the translation by G.P Verbrugghe and J.M.
The Epic of Gilgameš is one of the most famous texts from ancient Babylonia. It tells the story of a
The Epic of Atraḥasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood, with Atraḥasis in the role of Noah.
Berossus' own account (in Babylonian History) is lost, but it was summarized by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in his