Biblical literalism
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Biblical literalism or biblicism is the strict adherence to the exact, plain sense of words or depictions in the Bible.
Imaginative portrayal of Origen by André Thévet
Portrait of Augustine of Hippo by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century
Biblical literalists believe that the story of Noah's Ark (depicted in this painting by Edward Hicks) is historically accurate.
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Noah's Ark
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Noah's Ark is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and pairs of each land animal in the world from a global deluge.
Biblical literalism
…typically treat as simple history, according to its plain sense, passages such as those that recount the Genesis creation, the Genesis flood narrative and Noah's Ark, and the unnaturally long life-spans of the patriarchs given in genealogies of Genesis, as well as the strict historicity of the narrative accounts…
Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks
A woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's German Bible
Noah's Ark by Theodore Poulakis, 1650-1692, depicting animals traveling to an ark.
Persian Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-tawarikh. Noah's Ark Iran (Afghanistan), Herat; Timur's son Shah Rukh (1405–1447) ordered the historian Hafiz-i Abru to write a continuation of Rashid al-Din's famous history of the world, Jami al-tawarikh. Like the Il-Khanids, the Timurids were concerned with legitimizing their right to rule, and Hafiz-i Abru's A Collection of Histories covers a period that included the time of Shah Rukh himself.