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Young, Davis A.

The biblical Flood : a case study of the Church's response to extrabiblical evidence / Davis A. Young. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans ; 1995. - xiii, 327 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The flood in early Jewish thought --
The flood in early Christian thought --
The flood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance --
The impact of the exploration of the new world --
Diluvial cosmogonies and the beginnings of geology --
The collapse of diluvial cosmogonies and the beginnings of modern geology --
Early nineteenth-century developments in geology --
Advance and regression in geological thought --
The popularizers of geology --
Theology in the mid-nineteenth century --
New discoveries and deluge theories of the late nineteenth century --
Biblical scholarship until the fundamentalist-modernist controversies --
Scientific advances of the early twentieth century --
Mesopotamian flood deposits --
Recent developments in science and biblical studies --
Twentieth-century flood geology --
Recent theories of the flood --
Recent commentary on the flood.

ISBN: 0802807194 (pbk. : t.p. verso) 0853646783 (Paternoster)

LCCN: 95001899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Deluge.
Bible.--History. --Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible and geology--History of doctrines.

LC Class. No.: BS 658 / .Y68 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 222/.1106/09