Reply To: Author to the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Jason Jewell
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It’s pretty clear that the author was a member of the priestly caste, but beyond that we can’t identify a particular person.

We can’t even say for certain that there was just one author; some variations in style in different parts of the epic lead many scholars to speculate that there’s more than one set of authorial “fingerprints” on the work.