Does Gilgamesh Predate Any Biblical Literature?

Don't start applying that reasoning to any of our old testament stories. That didn't happen with them. They were bemed into the minds of the biblical writers, right? Can you now joke? That's actually funny. And doesn't gilgamesh predate any biblical literature? Oh yes, at least it's concurrent with maybe some old testament stuff. It has old testament if you kind of think about the the time frame, it's like job is a similar time frame. The accounting of the story, actually, we have a seventh century version of it, but predates, it's much earlier than that. I often describe it to my students like a soapapret because

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