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A more recent version of this lecture is available here: https://youtu.be/gaI53yIkBN0 Same topic with more up-to-date scholarship, more graphics and timelines, better sound and video quality. The Epic of Gilgamesh pre-dates the book of Genesis by thousands of years. In this early Toronto Centre Place lecture, John Hamer looks at the many ways themes from the ancient Sumerian epic are echoed in the later Biblical account. 0:00 Echoes of Gilgamesh 16:53 Cuneiform"Wedge-Shaped" Writing 19:07 Akkadian Empire from the 2300s BCE 27:40 Sumerian/Akkadian Pantheon (Examples) • Inanna/Ishtar (planet Venus) 33:23 Epic of Gilgamesh: Mortality and the Meaning of Life . Although among the earliest works of literature, Gilgamesh's exploration of its themes - mortality and life's meaning 35:30 Prologue (following N.K. Sandars) 38:20 Portrait of Gilgamesh 38:30 King of the Weary People of Uruk 40:45 Aruru Creates Enkidu 41:29 Enkidu Loses His Innocence/Becomes Civilized • Savage Enkidu lives among animals; saving them from a hunter's traps 43:11 Enkidu and Gilgamesh: True Bromance 44:10 Motivation for a Quest: A Kind of Immortality 46:52 Inanna/Ishtar Proposes & Is Refused 48:25 Slaying the Bull of Heaven 50:33 Gilgamesh's Search for Everlasting Life 52:51 Encounter with Siduri, Goddess of Wine 54:13 Encountering Utnapishtim 54:53 Utnapishtim's Response 56:14 The Story of the Flood 57:20 A Plant that Restores Youth
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