Tag: The Ark

• Noah’s Flood (ii) with Fresh Eyes

  There was a time when most people were familiar with many of the biblical stories. With a decline in attendance at Church and Sunday-school, this is no longer the case, which is unfortunate, but not terminally so. The stories are all still there, crying out to be read. On the other hand, over-familiarity with these […]

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  15th May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Genocide, Myth, Noah, The Ark, The Flood, Yahweh

• Noah’s Flood (i) Two in One

  In the ancient near east, where the Israelites lived, there were several versions of the story of the Great Flood. These were contained in the national epics of the Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian peoples. These texts, the earliest of which precede the Hebrew Bible by hundreds of years, were used in the training of scribes, […]

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  13th May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Genesis, Myths, Noah, The Ark, The Flood