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- Title
Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah.
- Authors
Dershowitz, Idan
- Abstract
The original biblical Noah was not affiliated with the Flood. An early edition of J told of a devastating famine that afflicted the entire earth from the days of Adam and Eve until it was brought to an end on account of Noah. The Proto-J narrative was supplemented with a version of the popular Babylonian Flood story, ironically transforming a story of drought into a tale of torrential rain. It is this Noah who is referenced in Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah – not the familiar Flood hero.
- Subjects
NOAH (Biblical figure); FAMINES in the Bible; HISTORICITY of the Bible; FLOODS -- Religious aspects; NATURAL disasters; BABYLON (Extinct city); RELIGION
- Publication
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2016, Vol 128, Issue 3, p357
- ISSN
0044-2526
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zaw-2016-0022