The Flood – Study Guide, Additional Resources

Recommended Readings:

• Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis (New York: Schocken, 1966), 37–62.
• Norman Cohn, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
• Jason Silverman, Opening Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context, and Reception (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013).

Articles: (click to view)

• “Flood, The” by Emil G. Hirsch, W. Muss-Arnolt, Hartwig Hirschfeld
• “Commentary on Genesis 9:8-17” by The Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney
• Two Flood Stories

Lectures: (click to view)

• “Noah and Gilgamesh” by Dexter Callender
• YDS Old Testament Interpretation, Part 1 – Lecture 8, by Robert Wilson

Videos: (click to view)

• YBS Book of Genesis study with Professor Joel Baden: Week 4 – full lecture
• Contradictions in the Flood Story, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Two Flood Stories, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Aligning the Flood Stories with Genesis 1 and 2, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Clean vs. Unclean Animals, Dr. Joel S. Baden

Podcasts: (click to access)

• “Who Broke the Covenant?” (First Sunday of Lent), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study

Art: (click to view)

• “Tower of Babel” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• “The Deluge” by Winifred Knights
• “Miniature of Noah’s ark” by Guiart des Moulins
• “Nora, Hoist The Window / Let The Dove Come In (Who Built The Ark?)” performed by Bessie Jones
• “The Old Ark’s A-Moving” performed by A.A. Gray & Seven-Foot Dilly