Environmental Perspectives on the Genesis Flood Narrative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Tables and Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Noah’s Flood as Myth and Reception: An Introduction 1
7. It’s all in the Name: Reading the Noah Cycle in the Light of its Plot Markers 31
8. Sifting the Debris: Calendars and Chronologies of the Flood Narrative 57
9. Flood Calendars and Birds of the Ark in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q252 and 4Q254a), Septuagint, and Ancient Near East Texts 85
10. “Woven of Reeds”: Genesis 6:14b as Evidence for the Preservation of the Reed-Hut Urheiligtum in the Biblical Flood Narrative 113
11. Major Literary Traditions Involved in the Making of Mesopotamian Flood Traditions 141
12. It’s a Craft! It’s a Cavern! It’s a Castle! Yima’s Vara, Iranian Flood Myths, and Jewish Apocalyptic Traditions 191
13. Flood Stories in 1 Enoch 1–36: Diversity, Unity, and Ideology 231
14. Somewhere Under The Rainbow: Noah’s Altar and the Archaeology of Cult in Ancient Israel 249
15. “Go-4-Wood”: The Reception of Noah’s Ark in Ark Replicas 291
16. Comparative Theology and the Flood Narrative: The Image of God 325
17. The Deluge, Written Differently: André Chouraqui’s Distinctive Rendering of the Flood Narrative (Genesis 6:5–9:17) 345
18. The Flood of Genesis: Myth and Logos. A Philosophical Examination 369
19. Wicked Hearts, Grieving Heart: The Musical Afterlife of the “Flood Narrative” in the Nineteenth Century 399
20. After Me, the Rapture: Eschatological Rhetoric and the Genesis Flood narrative in Contemporary Cinema 433
21. Environmental Perspectives on the Genesis Flood Narrative 461
22. The Flood Narrative: A Polysemy of Promises 487
23. A Response (I) 511
24. Inundated 521