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The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate is unavailable, but you can change that!

"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters" (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV). In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled...

Based on the discussion of the rhetorical use of hyperbole evidenced in Scripture in proposition four, we are now ready to apply that to our understanding of the flood. We contend that employing universalistic rhetoric to portray the impact and significance of the flood as a cosmic cataclysm does not mean that the ancient Israelites or the author considered the physical scope or geographical range to be universal. Other
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