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Douglas, J. D.; Tenney, Merrill C., eds. (2011). Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary. revised by Moisés Silva (Reviseded.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0310229834. The flood was increasing for forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out of the reach of God's judgments. God's hand will find out all his enemies, ( Psalms 21:8). When the flood thus increased, Noah's ark was lifted up, and the waters which broke down everything else bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers betokens death unto death, to the faithful betokens life unto life. The Aftermath of the Flood Verses 21-24

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah's Instructions The 1860 edition attempts to solve the problem of the Ark being unable to house all animal types by suggesting a local flood, which is described in the 1910 edition as part of a "gradual surrender of attempts to square scientific facts with a literal interpretation of the Bible" that resulted in "the ' higher criticism' and the rise of the modern scientific views as to the origin of species" leading to "scientific comparative mythology" as the frame in which Noah's Ark was interpreted by 1875. [53] Ark's geometry [ edit ] This engraving features a line of animals on the gangway to Noah's ark. It is based on a woodcut by the French illustrator Bernard Salomon. [55] From the Walters Art Museum. Levenson, Jon D. (2014). "Genesis: introduction and annotations". In Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi (eds.). The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199393879. The structure of the Ark (and the chronology of the flood) is homologous with the Jewish Temple and with Temple worship. [7] Accordingly, Noah's instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high (approximately 134×22×13m or 440×72×43ft). [8] These dimensions are based on a numerological preoccupation with the number 60, the same number characterizing the vessel of the Babylonian flood hero. [1]A fuller understanding of the story is perhaps found in the descendants of Ham, through his son, Canaan, who produced the Mizraim (Egypt), the anthropological category of what became known as “Nilo-Hamitic” for sub-Saharan Africa, and the Canaanites. The later story of the Exodus from Egypt depicted the God of Israel outdoing the gods of Egypt through the stories of the Ten Plagues. In the stories of the attempts to settle in Canaan, “as descendants of Ham,” the slaughter of the Canaanites in the book of Joshua was rationalized as enemies of God, “under the curse.” A 19th-century mistranslation, that “Ham,” meant “dark,” became the rationale for the institution of slavery by European colonizers and the American Southern states. Comparable Myths Dalrymple, G. Brent (1991). The Age of the Earth. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2331-2. Noah's Ark ( Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the ship in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1] The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations, in the Quran, where the Ark appears as Safinat Nūḥ ( Arabic: سَفِينَةُ نُوحٍ "Noah's ship") and al-fulk (Arabic: الفُلْك). a b McCurdy, J. F.; Jastrow, M. W.; Ginzberg, L.; etal., eds. (1906). "Ark of Noah". Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com.

Walsh, Jerome T. (2001). Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative. Liturgical Press. ISBN 9780814658970. Noah's Faith and Obedience Verse 22 ~ Noah's faith triumphed over all corrupt reasonings. To rear so large a building, such a one as he never saw, and to provide food for the living creatures, would require from him a great deal of care, and labor, and expense. His neighbors would laugh at him. But all such objections, Noah, by faith, got over; his obedience was ready and resolute. Having begun to build, he did not leave off till he had finished: so did he, and so must we do. He feared the deluge, and therefore prepared the ark. And in the warning given to Noah, there is a more solemn warning given to us, to flee from the wrath to come, which will sweep the world of unbelievers into the pit of destruction. Christ, the true Noah, which same shall comfort us, hath by his sufferings already prepared the ark, and kindly invites us by faith to enter in. While the day of his patience continues, let us hear and obey his voice. Noah's Ark and the Flood: Genesis 7 This was most likely inserted after the composition of what became the Book of Leviticus, which listed the dietary laws for Jews, with “clean” and “unclean” examples of permitted foods (Leviticus 11). Surviving the Great Flood Best, Robert (1999), Noah's Ark And the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth, Eerdmans, ISBN 978-09667840-1-5

Just as confusing is the material that Noah was told to make the Ark out of. Genesis 6:14 mentions Gopher (or Gofer) wood, but this wood is only mentioned once in the Bible, and occurs nowhere else. So what on earth was it? It’s been suggested that it was a Hebrew translation of a Babylonian word for cedarwood, which would chime with the idea that the Flood story was derived (if only indirectly) from earlier Babylonian accounts. Plimer, Ian (1994). Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism. Random House Australia. p.303. ISBN 978-0-09-182852-3. The word ‘ark’, used of the boat Noah built, is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary with several meanings: to refer to a large wooden bin or hutch for storing food (Northern English dialect) or as the name for the wooden coffer containing the tables of the law, which God gave to Moses (i.e., the Ark of the Covenant).

The Baháʼí Faith regards the Ark and the Flood as symbolic. [45] In Baháʼí belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the "ark" of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead. [46] [47] The Baháʼí scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had numerous companions on the ark, either 40 or 72, as well as his family, and that he taught for 950 (symbolic) years before the flood. [48] The Baháʼí Faith was founded in 19th century Persia, and it recognizes divine messengers from both the Abrahamic and the Indian traditions. Evans, Gwen (3 February 2009). "Reason or Faith? Darwin Expert Reflects". UW-Madison News. University of Wisconsin-Madison . Retrieved 18 June 2010. Bennett, William Henry (1911). "Noah". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.19 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.722.

Poirier, Brent. "The Kitab-i-Iqan: The key to unsealing the mysteries of the Holy Bible". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011 . Retrieved 25 June 2007. Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1911). "Deluge, The". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.07 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. pp.976–979. Van Seters, John (2004). The Pentateuch: A Social-science Commentary. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 9780567080882. Shoghi Effendi (1971). Messages to the Baháʼí World, 1950–1957. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. p.104. ISBN 978-0-87743-036-0. Archived from the original on 2008-10-23 . Retrieved 2008-08-10. Bandstra, Barry L. (2008), Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (4thed.), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/ Cengage Learning, pp.61–63, ISBN 978-0495391050