The Epic of Gilgamesh

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…showed last 75 words of 887 total…immortality. One story is a bragging of one man's heroic life and the other is a history of one man's heritage. Some historians claim the Jews borrowed the stories from the Mesopotamian but another possibility is that they share a common history. All people would share these stories as a common history and it would not be one borrowing from the other but instead each writing down how the story was passed on to them.