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.
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.
Genesis flood narrative
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The Genesis flood narrative is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to destroy creation, saving only Noah and the people and animals who went with him into an ark built on God's instruction
Noah's Ark
…Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) 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. The story in Genesis is based on earlier…
The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre
The Deluge (1865) by Gustave Doré
Building the Ark (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
1896 illustration of the symbol of the rainbow, which God created as a sign of the covenant