Noah's Ark

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How long did the Flood last? ‘For 40 days and 40 nights’, every Christian will surely reply. But this isn’t what Genesis tells us. Or rather, it is and it isn’t: the Flood lasted 40 days according to Genesis 7:17, but for 150 days according to 7:24. This is one of several inconsistencies in the Biblical account. Genesis was composed of both oral traditions and “updated” material over many centuries. The scholarly consensus is that the first five books of the Scriptures were first written down c. 600 BCE, with the final editing completed during the period of “the Exile” in Babylon/ Persia in the fifth century BCE. Like many other stories in Genesis, there is often two and sometimes three versions of the same story. 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 According to Sanhedrin 108b, Noah was engaged both day and night in feeding and caring for the animals, and did not sleep for the entire year aboard the Ark. [29] The animals were the best of their kind and behaved with utmost goodness. They did not procreate, so the number of creatures that disembarked was exactly equal to the number that embarked. The raven created problems, refusing to leave the Ark when Noah sent it forth, and accusing the patriarch of wishing to destroy its race, but as the commentators pointed out, God wished to save the raven, for its descendants were destined to feed the prophet Elijah. [28] [ non-primary source needed] Douglas, J. D.; Tenney, Merrill C., eds. (2011). Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary. revised by Moisés Silva (Reviseded.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0310229834.

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 Schadewald, Robert J. (Summer 1982). "Six Flood Arguments Creationists Can't Answer". Creation/Evolution Journal. 3 (3): 12–17 . Retrieved 16 November 2010. Marvin Meyer; Willis Barnstone (June 30, 2009). "The Reality of the Rulers (The Hypostasis of the Archons)". The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala . Retrieved 2022-02-06. Levin, Christoph L. (2005). The Old testament: A Brief Introduction. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691113944. The Old testament: a brief introduction Christoph Levin.Thomas, Paul (16 April 2020). Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible. Bloomsbury Publishing. p.23. ISBN 978-0-567-68714-2. Cameo with Noah's Ark". The Walters Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13 . Retrieved 2013-12-10. Collins, Lorence G. (2011). "A supposed cast of Noah's ark in eastern Turkey" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-05 . Retrieved 2015-10-26.

Multiple Jewish and Christian writers in the ancient world wrote about the ark. The first-century historian Josephus reports that the Armenians believed that the remains of the Ark lay "in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans", in a location they called the Place of Descent ( Ancient Greek: αποβατηριον). He goes on to say that many other writers of "barbarian histories", including Nicolaus of Damascus, Berossus, and Mnaseas mention the flood and the Ark. [49]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 Kessler, Martin; Deurloo, Karel Adriaan (2004). A commentary on Genesis: The Book of Beginnings. Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809142057. Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition. Harvard University Press. pp. 624. ISBN 978-0-674-02339-0. Levenson, Jon D. (2014). "Genesis: introduction and annotations". In Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi (eds.). The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199393879. From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 28 October 1949: Baháʼí News, No. 228, February 1950, p. 4. Republished in Compilation 1983, p.508