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Common flood narrative and Mesopotamian history in Babylonian storytelling
The biblical Nimrod is a composite Hebrew equivalent of the kings of the Sargon dynasty in Mesopotamia./nThere is a common shared cultural narrative between the biblical story and Babylonian ways of telling their history./nThe cataclysmic flood in the region is a key marker in Mesopotamian flood narratives./nThe great flood narrative makes sense in Mesopotamia due to living in a flood zone and experiencing such events in their history.