%0 Journal Article
%T The flood and the problem of being an Omnivore
%A Samuel L Boyd
%J Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
%@ 1476-6728
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0309089217725259
%X The flood narratives in the Bible and the ancient Near East continue to attract scholarly attention from a variety of disciplines. This article incorporates recent research on ancient Near Eastern flood narratives into documentary examinations of Gen. 6-9. In doing so, important facets of the priestly flood account come to the fore, particularly the role of meat consumption. Meat-eating and animal consumption is then set in the trajectory of Second Temple Jewish retellings of the flood in Jubilees and 1 Enoch, showing the adaptation of this feature in reception history particularly in Jubilees 5
%K Atra-£¿as¨©s
%K flood
%K genesis
%K Gilgamesh
%K Jubilees
%K source criticism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309089217725259