Lewis, Jack P.

A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature / Jack P. Lewis - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 1968 - x, 199 p. ; 25 cm.

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.


Bible.—Genesis, V-X—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—History.Deluge.Bible.—O.T.—Genesis V-X—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—History.

BS1235.2 / .L4 1968