A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps o ...

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Noah or Nóach ("Rest," Standard Hebrew נוֹחַ (Nóaḥ), Tiberian Hebrew נֹחַ (Nōªḥ); Arabic نوح (Nūḥ)), is a Biblical figure who, according to Genesis, built an ark to save his family and each species of the world's animals from the Deluge (an example of Divine retribution). The story of his life is told in ...

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Many conservative Christians (especially in the United States) and Orthodox Jews are believers in Biblical inerrancy, the concept that the Bible, as the word of God, does not set out to mislead, and hence should be interpreted literally whenever there is no clear reason for any other reading. They also tend to trust in traditions regarding the composition of the Bible. Literalists therefore generally accept the traditional Jewish belief that the Ark narrative in Genesis was written by Moses. There is less agreement on when Moses lived, and thus on when the Ark story was written - various dates have bee ...

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Liberal Biblical scholarship concludes that the Biblical account was based upon Mesopotamian models. A majority of Christian fundamentalists believe that the prevalence of the story points to its origin in an actual, historical event. They argue that the high level of detail given in Genesis makes it an inherently reliable account, and that the other stories are accounts of the same historical event which were distorted into mythology over time. They claim that the Epic of Gilgamesh is merely a corrupted retelling of Genesis (though Genesis is beli ...

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According to the account in Genesis, Noah was the son of Lamech and the grandson of Methuselah. He and his wife had three sons: Japheth, Sem or Shem, and Ham. The order can be deduced from the Genesis record: Noah was 500 when the first son, Japheth, was born (Genesis 5:32) and 600 when the Flood came. Shem had his son, Arphaxad, 2 years after the Flood, when he was 100 years old (Genesis 11:10), making him 2 years younger than Japheth. Ham is stated to be the youngest (Genesis 9:24). (See ...

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This is type 1. When sea levels were low, the combined Tigris-Euphrates river flowed through a wide flat marshy landscape. The Persian Gulf today has an average depth of only 35 m. During the most recent glaciation, which ended 12,000 years ago, worldwide sea levels dropped 120 to 130 m, leaving the bed of the Persian Gulf well above sea level during the glacial maximum. It had to have been a swampy freshwater floodp ...

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Noah - Christian. Noah is pointed to as someone who has absolute faith in God. Jesus referred to Noah as a real person and the Deluge as a historical event. He considered the Biblical account as a forerunner of the salvation of man. "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah" (Matt 24:37 NASB) "For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark" (Matt 24:3 ...

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From Eusebius' time to the modern day, the physical Noah's Ark has held a fascination for Christians - although not for Jews and Muslims, who seem to have felt far less impelled to seek out the remains. In the 4th century Faustus of Byzantium was apparently the first to use the name "Ararat" to refer to a specific mountain, rather than a region, where the Ark could still be seen. Recorded visits, however, are few - the Byzantine emperor Heraclius is said to have made the trip in the 7th century, but less well-connected pilgrims had to brave ...

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In Western culture, the image of Noah's Ark with its many animals has come to symbolise wildlife preservation movements. Noah's Ark toys with dozens of pairs of animal figures, usually set up in a long two-abreast line leading to the toy ark, became popular in the 19th century. Modern apologetics ministries like Answers in Genesis oppose these toys on the grounds that, by not following the dimensions given in the Bible, they lead people to conclude that Noah's Ark couldn't have accommodated all the animals on board and t ...

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Deluge is another word for flood. For floods in general see Flood For Noah's Flood, described in the Book of Genesis, see Noah and Noah's Ark. For mythic floods involving Gilgamesh, Noah or others, see Deluge (mythology). For prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired the mythic floods above, see Deluge (prehistoric). For the Swedish occupation of Poland (1655-1660), see The Deluge. For a historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, see Potop (novel).

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At the time of the creation of man, God gave six pre-Mosaic laws to mankind as a whole. Following the Great Flood, an additional commandment was added (Genesis 9:2-4), making a total of seven laws binding on non-Jews, according to Jewish tradition. These seven laws are known alternately as the Seven Noahide Laws, the Seven Laws of Noah, the Seven Commands of Noah, the Seven Laws of the Righteous Gentile, or the Seven Universal Laws. The Seven Laws are: Do not commit idolatry. Do not blaspheme God. Do not ...

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This is the story of Noah's Ark according to chapters 6 to 9 of the Book of Genesis: God, seeing that man had become dedicated to evil, decided to flood the earth and destroy all life. However, He found one good man, Noah, and as he was a "righteous man, blameless among the people of his time", God decided that he would carry forth the lineage of man. God told Noah to make an ark, and to bring with him his wife, and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. Additionally, he was to bring pairs of all living creatures, male and ...

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Noah's Ark - Mesopotamian flood stories. The majority of modern scholars accept the thesis that the Biblical flood story is linked to a cycle of Mesopotamian myths with which it shares many features. These include the story of Atrahasis, known from a text dated to 1646-1626 BC; the Ziusudra story, from the late 17th century BC, and believed to be based on much earlier originals; and the story of Utnapishtim, known only from first millenium copies.[15] The Mesopotamian myth-cycle had a very long currency - the las ...

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In the 16th and 17th centuries, biblical scholars such as Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) and Athanasius Kircher (c.1601-1680) began to study the Ark story as a literal rather than allegorical account of earth history. Investigations of the Ark story, and the resulting hypotheses that harmonized the biblical account with natural historical knowledge, were an important impetus to the study of the geographical distibution of plants and animals, and indirectly spurred the emergence of biogeography in the 18th century. Natural historians also began t ...

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The 87 verses of the Ark narrative present a story of great power and poetry, but they also leave an impression of occasional confusion - why does the story tell us twice over that mankind had grown corrupt but that Noah was to be saved (Gen. 6:5-8 and Gen. 6:11-13)? Was Noah commanded to take one pair of each clean animal into the Ark (Gen. 6:19-20) or seven pairs (Gen. 7:2-3)? Did the flood last forty days (Gen. 7:17) or a hundred and fifty days (Gen. 7:24)? What happened to the raven that was sent out from the Ark at the same time as the ...

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Noah's Ark - In Rabbinic tradition. According to Jewish Rabbinic literature from the first centuries of the Christian era, Noah planted cedars one hundred and twenty years before the Deluge from which he afterward made the Ark. This lengthy period was partly in order to urge the sinful to amend their ways, and partly to allow sufficient time for the construction of the Ark. The animals were not led in by Noah, but by God, who caused them, as well as the spirits of those whose bodies were yet uncreated, to gather ...

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The Biblical account asserts that God sent the flood because mankind had become completely corrupt, and the heart of mankind was full of sin, so God regretted having made mankind, and decided to wipe it out, saving only Noah and his household, because he found Noah to be a just and righteous man. (Genesis 6:6). This raises a number of theological issues regarding the nature of God. Critics of the story find the idea of an all-good, all-powerful God destroying humanity and all other life on the planet (except Noah, his family and the animals on the Ark of course), simply because He was displeased with them, highly qu ...

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In North America, during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them, but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shifted. They lay in the areas of the modern lakes, but their drainage sometimes passed south, into the Mississippi system, sometimes into the Arctic, or east into the Atlantic. The most famous of these proglacial lakes was Lake Agassiz. A series of floods, as ice-dam configurations failed created a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz, resulting in massive pulses of freshwater added to the world's oceans. The Missoula Floods of Washington were also caused by brea ...

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In western countries, rivers prone to flooding are often carefully managed. Defences such as levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs are used to prevent rivers from bursting their banks. Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe with coastal defenses, such as sea walls and beach nourishment. London is protected from flooding by a huge mechanical barrier across the River Thames, which is raised when the water level reaches a certain point (see Thames Barrier). Venice has a similar arrangement, although it is already una ...

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