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  "title": "Atra-ḫasīs: The Babylonian Story of the Flood",
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    "en": "W. G. Lambert and A. R. Millard's 1969 critical edition and translation of the Old Babylonian *Atra-ḫasīs* Epic — the most detailed Mesopotamian narrative of the pre-Flood period. The epic describes the creation of humans by the gods to perform labor, the proliferation of humanity, the divine decision to send a flood to reduce the human population, and the survival of Atra-ḫasīs through divine warning. The structural parallels to Genesis 6–9 are extensive (the warning to the survivor, the construction of a vessel, the loading of animals, the post-flood sacrifice). Lambert and Millard remain the standard scholarly edition."
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    "A. R. Millard"
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    "Flood",
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