A Commentary on the Book of Genesis: From Noah to Abraham. With an appendix: A fragment of part 3

Abraham Abram according Akkadian already ancient appears Ararat Arpachshad Babylon Babylonian begot behold Bereshith Rabba Berossus Bible Biblical birds blessing Canaan Canaanites Chaldees chapter clean animals commanded commentary covenant curse Deluge Divine Egypt Egyptian Enlil Epic of Gilgameš epic poetry exegetes explain expression father flesh Flood flying creatures forty days Genesis Gilgameš Epic God's Haran heaven Hebrew ibid indicate interpretation Israel Israelites Japheth Joktan king land of Canaan later literally living Lord mankind meaning mentioned Mesopotamian month mountains Nahor narrative Noah's occurs paragraph parallel passage Patriarchs Pentateuch Pharaoh Philistines phrase possible preceding rain raven recension reference regard Sarai Scripture sentence Septuagint seven days Shechem Shem ship signifies sons of Noah story Sumerian Terah Tetragrammaton told Torah tradition Ugaritic Utnapištim verb verse viii whole earth wife word YHWH Ziusudra