We???re not debating the literary dependence (or not) of Gen 6-9 on the Epic of Gilgamesh. (Incidentally, notice that Avalos doesn???t give the date for this Palestinian fragment.)It betrays the weakness of his case when Avalos has to pepper his response with decoys.???We have mountains of Akkadian stories and others types of texts.???Avalos is now trying to snow the reader with a lot of generic e