Therefore, the biblical flood is most likely "an allegory, not a literal account of events". Read also: Protecting the ...

Today we look at several cases of legendary flood myths from the past and try to find if there could be any truth to them. From the biblical flood featuring Noah and his ark all the way to Chinese ...

(David Damrosch) "And without that Jewish break with the world of myth, we would never ... this ancient version of the Flood story, clearly much older than the biblical version.