Please also answer the following questions on your own paper:
1. What is the cause of the conflict among the gods?
2. How is Marduk described, and who is he?
3. What role does Anshar play in the battle of the gods?
4. Who will face Tiamat? Why does he think he can defeat her? What does he ask for in return?
5. What is done with the parts of Tiamat's body after she is killed? Be specific.
6. What is Kingu's role in the conflict? What happens to him in the end?
7. Of what were humans made? Why?
8. Look at Dennis Bratcher's summary of Tablet II. What does Tiamat symbolize? Considering her symbolic significance, why do you think it was important for her to be defeated?
9. Do you notice any similarities between the Enuma Elish and the Genesis account of creation?
10. What are some important differences between the Enuma Elish and the Genesis account of creation?
11-12. Find two sections from the text that contain a poetic devices (one or two lines each). Write down the lines, along with the tablet and line numbers, and state what the poetic devices are.
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