Parkinson, William (January–February 2004). "Questioning 'Flood Geology': Decisive New Evidence to End an Old Debate". NCSE Reports. 24 (1) . Retrieved 2 November 2010. 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 In the fourth century, Epiphanius of Salamis wrote about Noah's Ark in his Panarion, saying "Thus even today the remains of Noah's ark are still shown in Cardyaei." [50] Other translations render "Cardyaei" as "the country of the Kurds". [51] a b Cline, Eric H. (2009). Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp.71–75. ISBN 978-0199741076. Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1911). "Deluge, The". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.07 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. pp.976–979.

Morton, Glenn (17 February 2001). "The Geologic Column and its Implications for the Flood". TalkOrigins Archive . Retrieved 2 November 2010. Morton Not a Geologist Van Seters, John (2004). The Pentateuch: A Social-science Commentary. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 9780567080882. Freidenreich, David M. (2003). "The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah". Jewish Quarterly Review. 93 (3): 353–395. doi: 10.1353/jqr.2003.0009. ISSN 1553-0604. S2CID 170764204.God promised never to destroy the earth with a flood again and placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign of his promise. Read Matthew Henry's commentary of Genesis in the text below: Noah is Instructed to Build an Ark: Genesis 6 Nine versions of the Mesopotamian flood story are known, each more or less adapted from an earlier version. In the oldest version, inscribed in the Sumerian city of Nippur around 1600 BCE, the hero is King Ziusudra. This story, the Sumerian flood myth, probably derives from an earlier version. The Ziusudra version tells how he builds a boat and rescues life when the gods decide to destroy it. This basic plot is common in several subsequent flood stories and heroes, including Noah. Ziusudra's Sumerian name means "He of long life." In Babylonian versions, his name is Atrahasis, but the meaning is the same. In the Atrahasis version, the flood is a river flood. [16] :20–27 Kvanvig, Helge (2011), Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic: An Intertextual Reading, BRILL, ISBN 978-9004163805 Van Seters, John (2004). The Pentateuch: A Social-Science commentary. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0567080889. Cline, Eric H. (2007). From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. National Geographic. ISBN 978-1-4262-0084-7.

Young, Davis A. (March 1995). The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidence. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Pub Co. p.340. ISBN 978-0-8028-0719-9. When it started raining, Noah brought his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives onto the ark. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. After coming to rest on a mountain, Noah sent out a dove to find dry land but it returned. Seven days later, he sent out another dove and it returned with an olive leaf, signaling that it was safe to go onto land. Emerton, J. A. (1988). Joosten, J. (ed.). "An Examination of Some Attempts to Defend the Unity of the Flood Narrative in Genesis: Part II". Vetus Testamentum. XXXVIII (1). Bennett, William Henry (1911). "Noah". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.19 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.722. The Impossible Voyage of Noah's Ark | National Center for Science Education". ncse.ngo . Retrieved 2021-04-06.

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Nor did Noah take two of every animal onto the Ark – or rather, again, he did and he didn’t. In 7:2, God tells Noah to take seven of ‘every clean beast’, ‘and of beats that are not clean by two, the male and the female’. This contradicts what had been said in 6:19: ‘And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark’. The same goes (6:20) for every fowl, cattle, and ‘creeping thing’. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Nigosian, S.A. (2004), From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, JHU Press, ISBN 9780801879883