Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization

A historian draws on archeological evidence to prove that the flooding of the Black Sea and the resulting diaspora inspired the flood story in Genesis.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

The Biblical flood described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination. Pro...