Don Barone Wrote:
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> In this article JC ...
> would have us believe that the flood myth is an
> ancient antique Cristian Story passed via Egyptian
> myth where if he did his homework as he is so
> proud of saying he does he would know the story
> originated far before any Christians heard of it
> and way before any Egyptian heard of it as well
> for that matter. Most learned people know that the
> origin of this tale is far back in Sumerian
> history.
>
> Epic of Gilgamesh - 2100 BC
>
> Aga of Kish (contemporary with Gilgamesh of Uruk,
> according to the Sumerian tale of Gilgamesh and
> Aga) at 2600 BCE
>
> So thus if they are speaking of an historical
> person it far predates anything JC wishes to heap
> on it. The entire fabric of these stories
> originated in Sumeria and to claim that they are
> "Antique Christian" in nature is totally dishonest
> and probably why I don''t think a lot of him.

Jason is neither confused nor incorrect.

What he is referring to are the group of legends linking the Flood with the pyramids. If you read his article closely, you would find that he explains that these pyramid-Flood legends represent:

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... a medieval adaptation of a Late Antique Christian story that combined elements of Enoch’s antediluvian Pillars of Wisdom (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.68-74) and a preexisting popular Greco-Egyptian attempt to explain the hieroglyphs found in tombs and temples as a record of magic spells and wisdom carved to protect it from an unspecified Nile flooding event (Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History 22.15.30). [www.jasoncolavito.com]

Although the mediaeval pyramid-Flood legends incorporate the motif of the Flood, they are of course completely different from, and much later than, the Middle Eastern Flood myth (the earliest written version of which, as you rightly state, is to be found in the Gilgamesh epic).

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