"A wild man"

I recently re-read the Epic of Gilgamesh. This translation was particularly helpful in that there were notations next to passages with clear parallels in the Hebrew Bible (in Genesis). I thought about this when I watched a YouTube clip of Richard Dawkins confront Ted Haggard last year about his beliefs. Haggard, a successful pastor, seemed totally oblivious to the outside world in his intellectal worldview. For example, he states that there are "no contradictions in the Bible," a work "written over 1,500 years by 40 authors." And yet reading the Epic of Gilgamesh how could one not but see the resemblence between the wild man Enkidu and some of the characters in the bible, particular hairy Esau and Ishmael whose hand was against all other men? Of course, there are the explicit textual correspondences in regards to the flood story. I've read a fair amount of commentary on the Hebrew ...