Enuma Elish

The Babylonian myths of creation and the flood. The flood/deluge story showed up in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It's interesting to learn about the ideas of why humans were created (to labor for the gods) and the reason for the flood (to wipe out said humans because they were making too much noise and disrupting the gods). In the intro, Timothy J. Stephany made a connection from Babylonian gods to the book of Esther - Marduk / Mordechai and Ishtar / Esther. I hadn't heard of that connection before.