TIL (while listening to a Richard Dawkins book) that the story of Noah's Flood was cribbed from Epic of Gilgamesh.
Yet another example of how the more I learn, the harder it is to take the Bible seriously. When a text would have resulted in academic discipline for plagiarism, it's hard to see why it should be accepted as literal gospel truth.
https://time.com/44631/noah-christians-flood-aronofsky/
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