Doublets and Contradictions

What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, <i>Biblical Archaeology Review</i> (4:04), Nov/Dec 1978.
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What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Biblical Archaeology Review (4:04), Nov/Dec 1978.

The Babylonian flood stories are similar to the Genesis flood story in many ways, but they are also very different. If we look deeply enough into those Babylonian flood stories, they teach us how to understand the structure of the Genesis flood story. At the same time such a comparison also emphasizes how different the […]

1 Enoch, Book of Watchers: Enoch’s Vision
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1 Enoch, Book of Watchers: Enoch’s Vision

Lawrence H. Schiffman, Texts and Traditions, Ktav, Hoboken 1998, p.336-340 and Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Apocrypha, copyright 1957 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Book of 1 Enoch is made up […]