The Gilgamesh Epic and the Old Testament The Gilgamesh Epic and the Old Testament has a lot of differences. For examples, the world was created diversely, the gods treated their people differently, the people believe in different perspectives, the nature of the heroic. The quest for immortality. Conclusion, I can never identify the central ideas or the philosophy of the works. There is no such thing as one and only idea in a work of literature, and that in most art and literature, like life, there is no one correct answer concerning the any single issue. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament is not only an excellent piece of literature but