A study of the interpretation of Noah and the flood in Jewish and Christian literature
History
x, 199 pages ; 24 cm
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I. Noah and the Flood in the Bible
II. Noah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the O.T
III. The Flood in Hellenistic-Jewish writers
Philo of Alexandria
Pseudo-Philo
Josephus
IV. The Flood in the early versions
The Greek versions
The Aramaic versions
V. Early Christian interpretations of the Flood
VI. The rabbinic Noah
VII. The Flood and later Christian spiritual exegesis
Conclusion
Appendix: Index of scripture passages on the Flood in the works of Philo
The Noah commandments
The chronology of the Flood
Issued also as a thesis, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1962