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Gilgamesh in bar Konai (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Gilgameš (search for life) 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.07 Gilgameš (search for life) Postdiluvian age 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.05 Postdiluvian age	Keywords Peleg
Period 9th century CE	Channel Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Theodore bar Konai, Liber scholiorum:
The ninth century Nestorian bishop Theodore bar Konai includes among his scholia to the book of Genesis a list of postdiluvian monarchs that is synchronized with the generations from Peleg to Abraham. The tenth name on this roster is that of “Gilgamesh”.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Theodore bar Konai, Liber scholiorum

Bibliography

Reeves 1992, 121

Reeves, John C. Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony. Studies in the Book of Giants Traditions. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 14. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press 1992.

Amar Annus

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