The Gilgamesh Flood and GenesisThe Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of a worldwide flood and predates Genesis. So some argue that this invalidates the Genesis account. But PJ Wiseman presents an interesting theory in this regard in his book Ancient Records and the Structure of Genesis (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1985). He believes that Moses did not write Genesis but rather translated it from ancient stone tablets written in cuneiform script. . Each of the tablets would have been originally written by eyewitnesses to the particular events, or by those who received their information from eyewitnesses. He divides Genesis into parts according to the phrase "These are the generations" (KJV; "This is the history" - NKJV; "This is the record" - NASB; NIV; Gen 2:4; 5:1; 6: 9; 10:1; 11:27; 25:12,9; 37:2). in cuneiform script. Many of these tablets have been discovered and date from the third millennium BC. Wiseman's theory is that Genesis is translated from individual tablets which would have contained the material before each occurrence of the above expression. Thus, the stories of the creation of the universe (Gen 1) and the Garden of Eden (Gen 2) would have been written on a single tablet by Adam since these events were revealed to him by the only eyewitness of the events, God. Himself the accounts of the Fall and subsequent events are said to have been written on another tablet by Adam as an eyewitness to the events. Adam then passed each of these tablets on to his descendant Seth. Seth then recorded the events of Gen 5 and passed the tablets to his descendant Noah. Noah then recorded the events of Gen 6-9 and passed the tablets on to his descendant Shem, and so on to Joseph. Joseph then recorded the final chapters of Genesis and placed all the tablets in the pharaohs' library. Moses then, while at the pharaoh's court, would have had access to these tablets. He then translated them into his native Hebrew. The above theory “fits” various evidences in Scripture. For example, this would explain passages such as Exodus 6:3: "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name, LORD [YHWH], I was not known to them . » But the Tetragrammaton appears in Genesis, creating an apparent contradiction.