Endnote 5 – What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood

See Anne Kilmer, “The Mesopotamian Concept of Overpopulation and Its Solution as Represented in the Mythology”, Orientalia 41, pp. 160–177 (1972), and William J. Moran, “The Babylonian Story of the Flood (review article)”, Biblica 40, pp. 51–61 (1971), who working independently, also demonstrated that the problem which concerned the Babylonian gods was overpopulation.