* Gopher wood, of unclear meaning, is mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark

As a curious specimen of his method, it may be mentioned that he regards the three stories of Noah's ark as symbolic of the three sciences mathematics, physics, and metaphysics.

In Bahá ' í belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the ark of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead.

The anachronism of Noah's distinguishing between " clean " animals ( seven of each ) and " unclean " animals ( two of each ) when loading the animals onto the ark, which was only established under the later Law of Moses, supports the Documentary Hypothesis which posits that the authors of the Bible retroactively applied laws to older myths to tie them into a unified religion Judaism.

Noah's ark and the deluge from Zubdat-al Tawarikh

In Bahá ' í belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the " ark " of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead.

* Atzei Gopher ( ע ֲ צ ֵ י-ג ֹ פ ֶ ר – Gopher wood ) is mentioned once in the Bible, in, in the instruction to make Noah's ark " of gopher wood ".

" Fulk details that " the interpretation of ' ark ' derives solely from the passage in Snorra Edda, because of Bergelmir's resemblance to Noah, and the fact that Icelandic ǫrk [...] can refer to both Noah's ark and a chest or a sarcophagus.

However the genealogy in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle year 855, versions B and C, explains instead that Scef was born in Noah's ark, interpreting Sceaf as a non-Biblical son of Noah, and then continuing with the ancestry of Noah up to Adam as found in Genesis.

The city was so named because native Americans told Spanish missionaries that the dove from Noah's ark likely came from the area.

He believes that the animals carried on Noah's ark produced the biological diversity observed on Earth.

Similarly in Samaritan tradition Mount Gerizim is described as the ' navel ' of the earth, the only place which was not submerged in the deluge of the story of Noah's ark.

The Carthaginian Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220 ) compared Noah's dove, who " announced to the world the assaugement of divine wrath, when she had been sent out of the ark and returned with the olive branch " with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove that descends in baptism, " bringing us the peace of God, sent out from the heavens ".

* In the Old Testament, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights in the great flood in which all land living beings perished except those on Noah's ark.

In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the raven was the first animal to be released from Noah's ark.

Noah's ark and the deluge from Zubdat-al Tawarikh

According to Islam, Noah's ark was a flat watercraft made of logs, tied together with primitive ropes, the flood was local, around the Dead Sea area, and the animals were Noah's domesticated animals.

The first is Genesis 6: 1 – 4, immediately before the story of Noah's ark:

Animals boarding Noah's ark ( Edward Hicks, 1846 painting )

* " Wormwood ", which is similar to the biblical story of Noah's ark, in which God silently eradicates vampiric life from Earth.

The map depicts the Lake Van region and Mount Ararat, with Noah's ark.

Around 1825 both Lyell and Sedgwick had supported William Buckland's Catastrophism which postulated diluvialism to reconcile findings with the Biblical account of Noah's ark, but by 1830 evidence had shown them that the " diluvium " had come from a series of local processes.

Eusebius of Caesarea wrote that the " Greek translation the Bible also differs from the Hebrew, though not so much from the Samaritan " and noted that the Septuagint agrees with the Samaritan Pentateuch in the number of years elapsed from Noah's Flood to Abraham.

Noah's Ark (; Biblical Hebrew: Teyvat Noaḥ ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative ( Genesis chapters 6 – 9 ) by which the Patriarch Noah saves himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals when God decides to destroy the world because of mankind's evil deeds.

Noah's 1840 preface contained endorsements by Hebrew scholars of the day, all of whom praised the quality of the translation but said nothing to indicate they believed it to be the work referred to in Joshua and 2 Samuel.

( To underline the point, Noah's name means " rest " in Hebrew ).

Noa is commonly confused with Noah ( Hebrew: נח ), an unrelated masculine name known from the biblical story about Noah's ark.

Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the " mountains of Ararat ", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany ( 13th century )

The Mountains of Ararat ( Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian, Septuagint: ) is the place named in the Book of Genesis where Noah's Ark came to rest after the great flood ( Genesis 8: 4 ).

Tertullian ( c. 160-c. 220 ) compared Noah's dove in the Hebrew Bible, who " announced to the world the assuagement of divine wrath, when she had been sent out of the ark and returned with the olive branch ".

Javan ( Hebrew י ָ ו ָ ן, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yāwān ) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the " Table of Nations " ( Genesis chapter 10 ) in the Hebrew Bible.

Kittim ( Hebrew: כ ִּ ת ִּ ים, alternately transliterated as Chittim or Cethim ) in the genealogy of Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah's great-grandson.

Some of the full page miniatures, such as that containing the miniature of Noah's Ark ( folio 9r ), contain a single scene.

Since The Bible indicated that Noah's Ark had washed up on Mount Ararat only a thousand years before this Noah's sons could not account for every race on earth.

Noah's frustration at the defiance of his people led him to ask God to not leave even one sinner upon earth.

The narrative begins with God's decision to bring a deluge which will wipe out all life on earth except for those to be saved on Noah's Ark.

In the 600th year of Noah's life God opens the " fountains of the deep " and the " windows of Heaven " and causes rain to fall on the earth for 40 days and nights.

It was a speculative cosmogony, in which Burnet suggested a hollow earth with most of the water inside until Noah's Flood, at which time mountains and oceans appeared.

In contrast to the scientific consensus, exhibits promote young earth creationist claims, including the idea that humans and dinosaurs once coexisted, and that dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark.

Since the Bible indicated that Noah's Ark had washed up on Mount Ararat, only a thousand years ago before this, Morton claimed that Noah's sons could not possibly account for every race on earth.

Rain, snow, wind and hail were kept in storehouses outside the raqia, which had " windows " to allow them in-the waters for Noah's flood entered when the " windows of heaven " were opened.