Best Scholarly Resources on Ancient Sources & Evidence of an Ancient Deluge?

Hey all, does anyone have an idea of what are the best scholarly resources on the sources and and archeological finds of a great deluge in the ancient world/Mesopotamia? Hoping to find something that primarily deals with ancient documents as source material - but also May dabble in archeology. Looking for more scholarly ancient history resources.

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Beloved Amodeo

An excellent starting point for this subject is:

https://www.logos.com/product/153983/the-lost-world-of-the-flood-mythology-theology-and-the-deluge-debate?queryId=f625117bb08ae2828cc7ade2ea99c96f

Jan Krohn

Maybe some of these references are helpful.

Donovan R. Palmer

From the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church - https://ref.ly/logosres/odcc?hw=Flood%2c+The

Ben

This to me sounds like a framing issue, and understanding how Genesis relates to otherancient Near Eastern texts, e.g. Atrahasis, Gilgamesh, etc. I'd second the works of John Walton. (Sorry for the funny formatting, copying a lot from different notes of mine.)

These cover it a little bit, but provide a much better job framing the question, how does Genesis relate to other ancient Near Eastern texts, worldviews, etc.

Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?

Reading Genesis 1–2: An Evangelical Conversation

Kenton Sparks' books, Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible; God's Word in Human Words, an Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship; Sacred Word, Broken Word, Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture.

Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (2nd edition)

For some intellectual history on this topic NOT in Logos, I'd strongly recommend

*Numbers, The Creationists.

* Stiling, “Scriptural Geology in America.” In Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective
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Moore, James R. “Geologists and Interpreters of Genesis in the Nineteenth Century.” In God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. by David C.Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986,322–50.

* Rudwick, Martin J.S. “The Shape and Meaning of Earth History.” Inibid., 296–321

* “George Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology” in Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present

* Stiling, The Diminishing Deluge:Noah's Flood in nineteenth century American thought PhD Diss, UW-Madison, 1991.

*Edward Davis, “The Word and the Works: Concordism and American Evangelicals” in Perspectives on an Evolving Creation ed. Keith B. Miller (Eerdmans) Paper, ebook.

Janet Browne, “Noah’s Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History” and

Mott T. Greene “Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain” in Lindberg and Numbers, eds. When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

*David Montgomery

Watch his Harvard lecture here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMaUzNlDnSY
Read his book The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood

W. L. Moran, “Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood” Biblica 52 (1971) 51–61;
E. Fisher, “Gilgamesh and Genesis: The Flood Story in Context,” CBQ 32 (1970) 392–403
S. Holloway, “What Ship Goes There: The Flood Narratives in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis Considered in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Temple Ideology,” ZAW 103 (1991) 328–55;
The primeval flood catastrophe : origins and early development in Mesopotamian traditions / Y.S. Chen.
The Flood, the Akkadian Sources
Finkel, The Ark Before Noah