Quotes About Atrahasis

But Enki wants to save Atrahasis,50 the 'exceedingly wise man' of the city of Shuruppak.

so Enki tells Atrahasis to build a boat, instructing him about

Seeing the similarities between these two stories should discourage us from expecting the Adam story to contribute to contemporary scientific debates about human origins (let alone guide those debates). Likewise, the similarities between Genesis and Atrahasis suggest that the biblical account cannot be labeled "historical," at least not in any conventional sense of the word.