![]() Some researchers believe that a real (though localized) flood event in the Middle East could potentially have inspired the oral and later written narratives a Persian Gulf flood, or a Black Sea Deluge 7,500 years ago has been proposed as such a historical candidate. The ship and natural disaster as described in the Bible would have been contingent upon physical impossibilities and extraordinary anachronisms. Believers in the Ark continue to search for it in modern times, but no scientific evidence that the Ark existed has ever been found, nor is there scientific evidence for a global flood. The story in Genesis is repeated, with variations, in the Quran, where the Ark appears as Safinat Nūḥ ( Arabic: سَفِينَةُ نُوحٍ "Noah's ship") and al-fulk (Arabic: الفُلْك).Įarly Christian and Jewish writers such as Flavius Josephus believed that Noah's Ark existed, even though unsuccessful searches for Noah's Ark have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c. ![]() Noah's Ark ( Hebrew: תיבת נח Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the ship in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. ![]() ![]() Mythical ship in the Genesis flood narrative Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks. ![]()
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