The Torah’s Version of the Flood Story

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Dr. Rabbi Norman Solomon
The Torah’s Version of the Flood Story

Noah’s Ark (1846), a painting by the American folk painter Edward Hicks

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Published: September 28, 2013

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  1. Editor’s note: For more on ancient Near Eastern parallels to the Genesis flood account, see John Day, “The Mesopotamian Origin of the Biblical Flood Story,” TheTorah (2020), and Shalom Holtz, “The Flood Story in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context,” TheTorah (2014).

Dr. Rabbi Norman Solomon was a Fellow (retired) in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He remains a member of Wolfson College and the Oxford University Teaching and Research Unit in Hebrew and Jewish… Read More
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