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Compilations

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Web Archive: Ark quotations and summaries from Berossus to 20c people. Some errors.

The Historical Evidence for Noah's Ark, quotes from Josephus, Isidore of Seville, Aztec sources, etc. compiled by Richard M. Riss.

Omnium-gatherum with a long set of flood myths from various cultures at bottom and on a second and third and fourth page.

Other Jewish texts

See the various entries in the Jewish Encyclopedia for other Rabbinic texts. Much of this material is online.

Noah and The Flood From Ancient Jewish Writings compiled by Glen W. Chapman, from a page of material of interest to Mormons. The document contains a few references not found on this site.

Satan and Noah Plant a Vineyard: The Origin of Viticulture According to the Midrash by Jewish Heritage Online Magazine

Other Christian texts

Comment: References to Noah are, of course, very numerous in church literature of all ages. The following are a few striking but unrepresentative examples. Perhaps someday I'll be able to compile a more extensive collection. A good place to start would be a Google search on Noah in the "Christian Classics Ethereal Library."

Ephraim (Ephrem) the Syrian, Hymn 1, an extensive (and beautiful) comparison of the ark with his city of Nisibis, then under siege by the Persians (see Wikipedia or Catholic Encyclopedia).

Theophilus Ad Autolychum, book 3 translated by Roberts-Donaldson. Theophilus of Antioch was a second-century Christian who wrote a three-book explanation of Christianity (info here). He has an interesting passage on Noah, etymologizing the Greek Noah, Deucalion, as "Come, I call."

Book of Enoch

Translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913), from the Wesley Center's page of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Also here.

Livius.org: Book of Enoch by Jona Lendering. Good run-down of the current state-of-scholarship, including the various "divisions" of the book.

Jewish Encyclopedia: Books of Enoch (Ethiopic and Slavonic) by Richard Gottheil and Enno Littmann, from the 1901-1905 Jewish Encyclopedia. Very good.

1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, with summary of its use in the New Testament and early Christian authors, rediscovery and contents.

Wikipedia: Book of Enoch, with the usual salting of Wikipedia nonsense, eg., "parts of the book have been speculated about as containing instructions for the construction of a solar declinometer." (This may be strictly true, but the notion itself is strictly ridiculous.)

Book of Jubilees

Translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913), with an account of the textual history, from the Wesley Center's page of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Also here.

Jewish Encyclopedia: Book of Jubilees by Crawford Howell Toy and Kaufmann Kohler, from the 1901-1905 Jewish Encyclopedia

Catholic Encyclopedia: Book of Jubilees, entry by Gabriel Oussani from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Wikipedia: Jubilees.