The Flood myth / [print]
edited by Alan Dundes.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1988.
- vi, 452 pages ; 24 cm.
Introduction -- The Flood (Genesis 6-9) -- The two flood stories in Genesis The Chaldean account of the deluge Some observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian flood stories The Atrahasis epic and its significance for our understanding of Genesis 1-9 The story of the flood in the light of comparative Semitic mythology Stories of the creation and the flood New light on Ovid's story of Philemon and Baucis The great flood The principle of retribution in the flood and catastrophe myths The flood myth as vesical dream The flood as male myth of creation An analysis of the deluge myth in Mesoamerica Historical changes as reflected in South American Indian myths Noah's ark revisited : on the myth-land connection in traditional Australian aboriginal thought Myth motifs in flood stories from the grassland of Cameroon The flood motif and the symbolism of rebirth in Filipino mythology The flood : three Northern Kammu versions of the story of creation Te deluge myth of the Bhils of Central India The Tamil flood myths and the Cankam legend Noah and the flood in Jewish legend The Devil in the ark (AaTh 825) / Francis Lee Utley -- Science and the universality of the flood Geology and orthodoxy : the case of Noah's flood in eighteenth-century thought Charles Lyell and the Noachian deluge Creationism : Genesis vs. geology Norman C. Habel -- George Smith -- Daniel Hammerly-Dupuy -- Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- Eleanor Follansbee -- Leonard Woolley -- W.M. Calder -- James George Frazer -- Hans Kelsen -- Geza Roheim -- Alan Dundes -- Fernando Horcasitas -- Annamaria Lammel -- Erich Kolig -- Emmi Kahler-Meyer -- Francisco Demetrio -- Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin -- Wilhelm Koppers -- David Shulman -- Louis Ginzberg -- Don Cameron Allen -- Rhoda Rappaport -- James R. Moore -- Stephen Jay Gould.