{"id":29,"date":"2006-09-30T02:58:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/2006\/9?p=29"},"modified":"2006-09-30T02:58:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T09:58:55","slug":"whos-utnapishtim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Utnapishtim?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reply to Ardell’s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What if the Gilgamesh Epic IS the story of some king who went and found Noah? Or maybe Shem? Some have called Melchizedek, Shem<\/a>. And Melchizedek was considered a man without beginning or end<\/a>. So…<\/p>\n

[@more@]So, if Melchizedek is Shem, and considered by most of that world as a
\nman without beginning or end. Then how easy would it be for him to be
\nUtnapishtim as well? <\/p>\n

Supporting Arguments:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. ancestor of most of the Middle East peoples.<\/li>\n
  2. lived long enough to have conversations with short-lived decendents that where several, several generations his junior.<\/li>\n
  3. considered to be ‘without end’.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Unsupporting Argument:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Author of this blog is a redneck<\/li>\n
    2. Author is not a scholor, historian, or rabbi.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In reply to Ardell’s post: What if the Gilgamesh Epic IS the story of some king who went and found Noah? Or maybe Shem? Some have called Melchizedek, Shem. And Melchizedek was considered a man without beginning or end. So… [@more@]So, if Melchizedek is Shem, and considered by most of that world as a man without beginning or end. Then… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}