RELIGST 2VV3 Lecture Notes - Spurn, Unclean Animal, Utnapishtim
31 Mar 2013
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Cosmology of genesis (and the ancient near east) http://www. aarweb. org/syllabus/syllabi/g/gier/306/commoncosmos. htm. The hearts of the great gods moved them to inflict the flood. Make all living beings go up into the boat. The boat which you are to build, its dimensions must measure equal to each other: its length must correspond to its width. It (the boat) was a field in area, its walls were each 10 times 12 cubits in height, the sides of its top were of equal length, 10 times 12 cubits each. I provided it with six decks, thus dividing it into seven (levels). Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land. When the seventh day arrived, the sea calmed, fell still. When the seventh day arrived i sent forth a dove and released it. The dove went off, but came back to me; no perch was visible so it circled back to me.
