Did Noah's Ark Steal From Gilgamesh?

Noah's Ark in Genesis 6-9 shares striking similarities to ancient Flood stories like Gilgamesh, Atrahasis and the Sumerian Flood Story. Ever since George Smith discovered Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh at the British Museum in the 1800's we've been able to compare these flood stories and their similarities to the Bible. Why are the stories so similar? Did Noah's Ark steal from these stories?

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Sources on the similarities between Noah and other ANE Flood Stories:

The Ark Before Noah by Irving Finkel: The Ark Before Noah, Irving Finkel: https://amzn.to/3Qc9JUt
Amanda Norsker, “Genesis 6,5-9.17: A Rewritten Babylonian Flood Myth,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 29:1 (2015)
Bernard Batto's Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/...
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-...
John Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Hays

It's worth at least mentioning some older articles, some of the ideas are a bit dated:
"GILGAMESH" AND GENESIS: THE FLOOD STORY IN CONTEXT, Eugene Fisher (1970)
The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1-9, Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1977)
The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic, Jeffrey Tigay (1982)

Dates are primarily sourced from the universities and institutions which house the tablets:
Gilgamesh: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
Sumerian: https://www.schoyencollection.com/lit...
https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/arti...
Nippur Tablet: https://www.penn.museum/collections/o...
Atrahasis Tablet: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...

Translations:
Andrew George, Gilgamesh (Critical edition)
Critical edition of Atrahasis by Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan R. Millard, and Miguel Civil
https://www.livius.org/sources/conten...
ANET, Pritchart
Context of Scripture, 2 Vols

Other useful links:
Joel Baden's lectures:    • Видео  
Literary Analysis of the Flood St y Analysis of the Flood Story as a Semitic Type-Scene, Jared Pfost (Note: This is a doctoral student essay, it won a Near Eastern essay competition, and I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion that the story is a straight up polemic, but there's some good literary comparison)
https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.co...
Digital Hammurabi have a bunch of great videos on the flood, here's one, you can search for the rest:    • Mesopotamian Flood Story (Atrahasis),...  

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