Noah and His Book(s).

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Fragments and Documents Associated with a "Book of Noah" -- The Book(s) Attributed to Noah -- A Reconsideration of Charles's Designated "Noah Interpolations" In 1 Enoch: 54:1-55:1 -- 60 -- 65:1-69:25 -- Is 1 Enoch 6-11 a "Noachic" Fragment? A Scholarly Discussion -- Traditions of the Birth of Noah -- A Note On 1Q19: The "Book Of Noah" -- The Noah Cycle in the Genesis Apocryphon -- Is 4Q534-536 Really about Noah? -- The Rebirth of a Book: Noachic Writing in Medieval and Renaissance Europe -- Part 2: Noah Traditions -- Noah and the Flood in the Septuagint -- Distinctive Traditions about Noah and the Flood in Second Temple Jewish Literature -- The Role of Noah and the Flood in Judean Antiquities and Against Apion by Flavius Josephus -- Philo's Interpretation of Noah -- Noah in Rabbinic Literature -- Noah and the Flood in Gnosticism -- Some Jewish Noah Traditions in Syriac Christian Sources -- The Literary Presentation of Noah in the Qur'ān -- A Shelter amid the Flood: Noah's Ark in Early Jewish and Christian Art -- Part 3: Miscellaneous Noah Texts and Traditions -- Noah in Onomastic Traditions -- Mount Ararat and the Ark -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Authors.

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