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Line 3: <!-- This article uses BC / AD dates. --> {{Infobox saint | name = | image = Giovanni Battista Gaulli - The Sacrifice of Noah - NG.M.03497 - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (cropped).jpg | alt = Line 9: | titles = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | home_town = | residence = | death_date = | death_place = | venerated_in = [[Judaism]]<br />[[Mandaeism]]<br />[[Christianity]]<br />[[Druze faith]]<ref name="Hitti 1928 37">{{cite book|title=The Origins of the Druze People and Religion: With Extracts from Their Sacred Writings| first= Philip K.|last= Hitti|year= 1928| isbn= 9781465546623| page =37 |publisher=Library of Alexandria}}</ref><ref name="Dana 2008 17">{{cite book|title=The Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status| first= Nissim |last= Dana|year= 2008| isbn= 9781903900369| page =17 |publisher=Michigan University press}}</ref><br />[[Yazidism]]<br />[[Islam]]<br />[[Baháʼí Faith]] Line 36: '''Noah'''{{efn|{{Lang-he|{{Script/Hebrew|נֹחַ}}}} ''Nōaḥ''; {{lang-syr|ܢܘܚ}} ''Nōḥ''; {{lang-am|ኖህ}}, ''Noḥ''; {{lang-ar|نُوح}} ''{{transliteration|ar|ALA-LC|Nūḥ}}''; {{lang-grc|Νῶε}} ''Nôe''}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|oʊ|.|ə}})<ref>{{cite book|last= Wells|first= John C.|year= 2008|title= Longman Pronunciation Dictionary|edition= 3rd|publisher= Longman|isbn= 9781405881180}}</ref> appears as the last of the [[Antediluvian]] [[Patriarchs (Bible)|patriarchs]] in the traditions of [[Abrahamic religions]]. His story appears in the [[Hebrew Bible]] ([[Book of Genesis]], chapters 5–9), the [[Quran]] and [[Baháʼí literature|Baha'i writings]]. Noah is referenced in various other books of the Bible, including the [[New Testament]], and in associated [[deuterocanonical books]]. The [[Genesis flood narrative]] is among the best-known stories of the [[Bible]]. In this account The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian [[Epic of Gilgamesh]], composed around 1800 BCE, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was influenced by earlier Mesopotamian traditions, with notable parallels in plot elements and structure. Comparisons are also drawn between Noah and the Greek hero [[Deucalion]], who, like Noah, is warned of a flood, builds an ark, and sends a bird to check on the flood's aftermath. ==Biblical narrative== Line 183 ⟶ 185: ===Ancient Greek=== Noah has often been compared to [[Deucalion]], the son of [[Prometheus]] and [[ The motif of a [[weather deity]] who headed the pantheon causing the great flood and then the trickster who [[Creation of life from clay|created men from clay]] saving man is also present in [[Sumerian Mythology]], as [[Enlil]], instead of Zeus, causes the flood, and [[Enki]], rather than Prometheus, saves man. Stephanie West has written that this is perhaps due to the Greeks borrowing stories from the Near East.<ref>West, S. (1994). Prometheus Orientalized. Museum Helveticum, 51(3), 129–149.</ref> |