A one-session companion course to the course on Gilgamesh, this class will do a comparative close reading of selections from Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, and Genesis 1-2:3. What can we glean from noticing traces of the Babylonian story in Genesis—or from attending to the stark theological differences? Along the way, we will also learn a bit about the historical-critical method of Biblical interpretation. No knowledge of Babylonian mythology or the Bible is required or expected.