[99] Tablet VIII, 5, 2–6.
[100] So also Gressmann in Ungnad-Gressmann, Das Gilgamesch-Epos, p. 97, regards Enkidu as the older figure.
[101] See Jastrow, Adam and Eve in Babylonian Literature, AJSL, Vol. 15, pp. 193–214.
[102] Assyrian version, Tablet I, 2, 31–36.
[103] It will be recalled that Enkidu is always spoken of as “born in the field.”
[104] Note the repetition ibtani “created” in line 33 of the “man of Anu” and in line 35 of the offspring of Ninib. The creation of the former is by the “heart,” i.e., by the will of Aruru, the creation of the latter is an act of moulding out of clay.
[105] Tablet I, Column 3.
[106] Following as usual the enumeration of lines in Jensen’s edition.
[107] An analogy does not involve a dependence of one tale upon the other, but merely that both rest on similar traditions, which may have arisen independently.
[108] Note that the name of Eve is not mentioned till after the fall (Genesis 3, 20). Before that she is merely ishsha, i.e., “woman,” just as in the Babylonian tale the woman who guides Enkidu is ḫarimtu, “woman.”