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If Josephus is to be trusted (and few ancient historians were more thorough), then the ancients were not inclined to doubt whether or not there had been a great, overwhelming and universal Flood. They may have debated the dating of it. They may have wondered as to which part of Armenia contained the remains of the Ark. And it is known that they did debate the proper names of the survivors of the Ark and the migration patterns which ensued. For instance, the Hebrew gives the leader's name as Noah, whereas the Greek gives it as Noeus and then seemingly combines or confuses the story with an ancient King Deucalion and his wife. The Babylonian account gives the name of the builder of the Ark as Ut-napishtim, and another account gives it as Xisuthrus. Interestingly enough, the Aztecs have a similar story of two persons who survived in a boat which landed on the mountainside after the rain stopped. The Aztec name for the survivor was Coxcox.
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Flood stories in Genesis and the other flood accounts of the ancient near east are difficult to compare because they were written for different reasons and from different perspectives. For instance, the Gilgamesh Epic is concerned with the hero's quest for immortality. The Sumerian flood account is very fragmentary, necessitating a reconstruction from other accounts. The Babylonian Atrahasis tale is better to use in making a comparison. Even so, in it the Flood was sent because of over population and the fact that mankind was too noisy and disturbed the gods.
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Originally released a decade ago, Eric Drooker's Flood! remains a simple-yet-complex masterpiece of visual storytelling. This is not a simple graphic novel that takes the form of storyboards with narration or dialogue. Instead of hearing the words in your head as you read them, you are expected to directly connect with the author's story without the language filter. This is a communication of emotions primarily through humanity's sense of sight.
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Two problems about which there are great differences are the date of the Flood, and whether it was local or universal. Critics of the flood narrative consider it either a myth, or an embellished local flood story.
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