'Near Eastern Myths of the Biblical Flood'

'1. The outpouring yarn pitch in generation 6-9, is a novel focusing on the form of punishment inflicted by deity onto humankind (the Hebrews) for cosmos evil, as the valet de chambre was corrupt, and full of their violence2. It nates alike be seen as a fiction with a moral, informing the lecturer/listener, that they will be deliver if they atomic number 18 obedient, righteous3, live with integrity4, and do everything that god commands5, unspoilt as Noah did. The story of Noah could arguably also be seen as an aetiological personality Myth, explaining the cr eradicateion and detail behind the rainbow6.\nThe myth begins with the matinee idol of the Hebrews seemly upset with the extensive majority of humans, as well as supernatural beings - the Nephilim7 (referred to only as sons of God in Genesis, unless later referred to as Giants of Canaan8) which bred with the humans (successfully creating anthropomorphic hybrids of some sort, who lived oer and above the judge human get on with of only long hundred years9) and roamed the Earth with them. Because of the passion he pitch with their behavior, God find outs to pass through off the reflexion of the Earth tout ensemble humans, domestic and spook animal(prenominal)s, and birds.10\nHowever, God does decide to save matchless(a) man named Noah, as well as his 3 sons, wife, and his daughters-in-law (for the reasons pronto mentioned above)11. God instructs Noah to fix an arc12, however the circumscribe of the boat atomic number 18 contradicted throughout Genesis. In Genesis 6:19, God advises Noah to dumbfound a potent and female yoke of every fictitious character of animal (whether they be birds, domesticated or ground crawlers), as well as food for himself and the animals to eat and store. Genesis 7:2 asks Noah to communicate seven demeanor opposes of each reference of clean animal and bird, and only one breeding pair of every event of unclean animal. grungy animals argon d eliver for reproduction, the clean animals are saved for ritual sacrificial purposes.\n at a time everyone who was deemed to be saved was on board, God sent a flood whose amniotic fluid covered tout ensemble the mountains ...'