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  Noah and the Flood

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Historical Analysis
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Historical Analysis
 
Authors
according to the Documentary Hypothesis; click on links for information
 
 
 
Commentaries
 
Clifford, Richard J. and Roland E. Murphy.  "Genesis." In The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (ed. Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer and Roland E. Murphy; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1990) 8-43. Read with this the material on the authorship of the Pentateuch in the same volume: Roland E. Murphy, "Introduction to the Pentateuch," pp. 3-7.
[Link to article here]
 
Fretheim, Terence E.  "Genesis."  In The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 1, Genesis to Leviticus (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994) [add pages of full essay].
 
Sadler, Rodney S., Jr.  "Genesis."  In Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha (ed. Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Matthew J. M. Coomber; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014) 89-136.
[Link above is to the print copy; here is a link to an electronic copy]
 
Sarna, Nahum M.  Genesis = Be-reshit: The Traditional Hebrew Text with New JPS Translation.  Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.
 
Speiser, E. A.  Genesis, Anchor Bible 1.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1964.
[Link to beginning of commentary here]
 
Wenham, Gordon J.  "The Coherence of the Flood Narrative."  Vetus Testamentum 28:3 (1978) 336-48.
 
Westermann, Claus.  Genesis 1–11: A Commentary, trans. John J. Scullion.  Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Blenkinsopp, Joseph.  "The Structure of P."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 38 (1976) 275-92.
 
Boorer, Suzanne.  The Vision of the Priestly Narrative: Its Genre and Hermeneutics of Time.   Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
 
Pleins, J. David.  When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah's Flood.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
 
Van Seters, John.  The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
 
 
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Modern Modes
Religious   Secular
 
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Noah's ArkNoah's Ark, Edward Hicks (1846)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Hicks, Edward.  Noah's Ark.   1846.  Oil on canvas.  66.8 x 77.1 cm.  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
 
 
Mode
 
Vlach, John Michael.  "Quaker Tradition and the Paintings of Edward Hicks: A Strategy for the Study of Folk Art."  Journal of American Folklore 94:372 (1981) 145-65.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • Art Full Text
  • Art Index Retrospective
  • ARTstor
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
 
Ford, Alice.  Edward Hicks: His Life and Art.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.
 
--------.  Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceful Kingdom.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1952.
 
Mather, Eleanore Price.  Edward Hicks, His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings, catalogue by Dorothy Canning Miller and Eleanore Price Mather.   Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
 
--------.  "The Inward Kingdom of Edward Hicks: A Study in Quaker Iconography."  Quaker History 62:1 (1973) 3-13.
 
Sewell, Darrel.  "Noah’s Ark."  In Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995) 281.
 
Werner, Alfred.  "Edward Hicks, Preacher and Painter."  Art and Artists 10 (1975) 26-31.
 
 
 
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Noah and the RainbowNoah and the Rainbow, Marc Chagall (1966)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Chagall, Marc.  Noé et l'Arc en ciel [Noah and the Rainbow].  1966.  Oil on canvas.  205 x 295 cm.  Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France.
 
 
Mode
 
Reid, Stephen Breck.  "The Art of Marc Chagall: An Interpretation of Scripture."  In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 70-80.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • Art Full Text
  • Art Index Retrospective
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  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
 
Lewis, Michael J.  "Whatever Happened to Marc Chagall?"   Commentary 126:3 (2008) 36-41.
 
Jeffrey, David L.  "Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall."  Religion and the Arts 16:3 (2012) 211-230.
 
Reid, Stephen Breck.  "The Art of Marc Chagall: An Interpretation of Scripture."  In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 70-80.
 
Werner, Alfred.  "Marc Chagall and His Bible Illustrations."  The Reconstructionist 23:10 (1957) 6-14.
 
 
 
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Super 3-D Noah's ArkSuper 3-D Noah's Ark, Wisdom Tree (1994, 2015)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Wisdom Tree.  "Super 3-D Noah's Ark."   Bible Champions II.   Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1994.   Windows, OS X, Linux [Steam], 2015.
 
 
Mode
 
Robson, Jon and Aaron Meskin.  "Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74:2 (2016) 165-77.
 
Wagner, Rachel.  Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.  New York: Routledge, 2012.
[esp. ch. 2]
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
 
Bak, Meredith A.  "Building Blocks of the Imagination."  Velvet Light Trap A Critical Journal of Film and Television 78 (2016) 53-64.
 
Dalton, Russell W.  Children's Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah's Ark in U.S. Children's Bibles.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
 
Lucas, Paul A.  "The Video Game Soap Opera: Storytelling and Plot Development in Video Games."  Florida Communication Journal 43:2 (2015) 91-102.
 
Wellenreiter, Michael.  "Screenwriting and Authorial Control in Narrative Video Games."  Journal of Screenwriting 6:3 (2015) 343-61.
 
Popular (but Useful) Sources
 
Champion, Chris.  "Games Christians Play."  Alberta Report/ Newsmagazine 22:20 (1 May 1995) 42.
 
Hutton, Christopher.  "A Short History of Christian Videogames."   Gamechurch.com (n.d.).  Online, http://gamechurch.com/short-history-christian-videogames/, accessed [your access date].
 
 
 
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Creation, Covenant, Shekinah, KingdomCreation, Covenant, Shekinah, Kingdom (Wis 13:1-5), Donald Jackson (2006)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Jackson, Donald.  Creation, Covenant, Shekinah, Kingdom (Wis 13:1-5) (or Four Elements).   2006.  Ink on parchment.   The Saint John's Bible, Wisdom Books (Wisdom of Solomon 10–11).  Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.  Reproduced in facsimile in The Heritage Edition.  Santa Clara University Archives, Santa Clara, California.
 
 
Mode
 
Patella, Michael.  Word and Image: The Hermeneutics of the Saint John's Bible.  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013.
[See esp. pp. 1-26, 73-82, and 176-178]
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
  • JSTOR
 
 
Calderhead, Christopher.  Illuminating the Word: The Making of The Saint John’s Bible, 2nd ed.   Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2015.
 
Patella, Michael.  "The Theology of The Saint John's Bible."  Arts 17:1 (2005) 20-28.
 
Sink, Susan.  The Art of the Saint John's Bible, vol. 2, A Reader's Guide to Wisdom Books and Prophets.  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012.
[See esp. pp. 43-44]
 
 
 
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Noah Loads the ArkNoah (The Action Bible), Sergio Cariello (2010)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Sergio Cariello, illustrator.   "Noah."  In The Action Bible (ed. Doug Mauss;   Colorado Springs, Colorado: David C. Cook, 2010) x.
Related Website: TheActionBible.com
 
Mode
 
x.
 
x.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
 
Dalton, Russell W.  Children's Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah's Ark in U.S. Children's Bibles, Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 614.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
 
 
 
 
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Creation Museum: Ark EncounterCreation Museum: Ark Encounter
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Answers in Genesis.  Creation Museum and Ark Encounter.   Petersburg, Kentucky.   Online, http://creationmuseum.org, accessed [your access date].
 
 
Mode
 
Hubard, Olga.  "Concepts as Context: Thematic Museum Education and Its Influence on Meaning Making."  International Journal of Art and Design Education 33:1 (2014) 103-106.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
  • ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection
 
Bernstein, Sheri and Marni Gittleman.  "The Value of Risk: Noah's Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center."  The Journal of Museum Education 35:1 (2010) 43-58.
This article is about a different exhibit/museum, but there may be some parallel issues to the Kentucky museum.
 
Boyer, John.  "Intelligent by Design."  Cross Currents 57:3 (2007) 452-8, 471.
 
Butler, Ella.  "God Is in the Data: Epistemologies of Knowledge at the Creation Museum."  Ethnos 75:3 (2010) 229-51.
 
Scott, David W.  "Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark? Multi-media Narratives and Natural Science Museum Discourse at the Creation Museum in Kentucky."  Journal of Media and Religion 13:4 (2014) 226-43.
 
Stevenson, Jill.  "The Creation Museum as Engaged Orthodoxy."  In Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2013) 128-61.
 
Thomas, Paul.  Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 684/Scriptural Traces 17.  New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
 
 
 
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Noah Obeyed GodBIG Bible Town: Noah Obeyed God, 3rd Day Games (2007)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
3rd Day Games.  "Noah Obeyed God."   Bible Champions II.   Windows.   2007.
 
 
Mode
 
Robson, Jon and Aaron Meskin.  "Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74:2 (2016) 165-77.
 
Wagner, Rachel.  Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.  New York: Routledge, 2012.
[esp. ch. 2]
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
 
Bak, Meredith A.  "Building Blocks of the Imagination."  Velvet Light Trap A Critical Journal of Film and Television 78 (2016) 53-64.
 
Dalton, Russell W.  Children's Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah's Ark in U.S. Children's Bibles.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
 
Lucas, Paul A.  "The Video Game Soap Opera: Storytelling and Plot Development in Video Games."  Florida Communication Journal 43:2 (2015) 91-102.
 
Wellenreiter, Michael.  "Screenwriting and Authorial Control in Narrative Video Games."  Journal of Screenwriting 6:3 (2015) 343-61.
 
 
 
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Noah's ArkThe Deluge, Francis Danby (1840)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Danby, Francis.  The Deluge.1840.  Oil on canvas.  284.5 x 452.1 cm.  Tate London, London, England.
 
 
Mode
 
x.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • Art Full Text
  • Art Index Retrospective
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  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
 
Adams, Eric.  Francis Danby: Varieties of Poetic Landscape.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1973.
 
Greenacre, Francis.  The Bristol School of Artists: Francis Danby and Painting in Bristol 1810–1840, exhibition catalogue.   Bristol: City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973.
 
Matteson, Lynn R.  "John Martin's The Deluge: A Study in Romantic Catastrophe."  Pantheon 39 (July/September 1981) 220-28.
 
Verdi, Richard.  "Poussin's Deluge: The Aftermath."  Burlington Magazine 123 (July 1981) 388-400.
 
 
 
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Noah's Ark, dir. Michael Curtiz and Darryl F. Zanuck (1928)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Noah's Ark.  Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; directed by Michael Curtiz and Darryl F. Zanuck.  135 min.  Warner Bros., 1928.
  • IMDb

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Mode
 
Bach, Alice.  "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars."  Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Film Literature Index
 
 
 
 
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The Bible: In the Beginning, dir. John Huston (1966)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
The Bible: In the Beginning.  Produced by Dino De Laurentiis; directed by John Huston.  174 min.   Twentieth Century Fox, 1966.  [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
 

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Mode
 
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh.  "Scripture as Precursor."  In Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film (eds. George Aichele and Richard Walsh; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) vii-xvi.
 
Bach, Alice.  "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars."  Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Film Literature Index
 
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh, eds.  Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002.
 
Hall, Sheldon and Steve Neale.  "Roadshows, Showcases, and Runaways, 1956–1970."  In Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010).  
 
Kozlovic, Anton Karl.  "Holy Writ and Hollywood: Six Heuristic Categories of Scripture-Quoting within the Popular Cinema."  Journal of Media and Religion 12 (2013) 71-85.
 
Marsh, Clive and Gaye Ortiz, eds.  Explorations in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning.  Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998.
 
Ortiz, Gaye Williams.  "Creation and Origins in Film."  In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Bruyter, 2016) 341-54.
 
Sanders, Theresa.  "In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film."  In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Boston: Walter de Bruyter, 2016) 17-34.
 
Scott, Bernard Brandon.  Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
 
 
Film Reviews
Because these are short and popular, you can read them, but they don't replace the need for at least two professional sources.
 
Crowther, Bosley.  "The Screen: 'The Bible' According to John Huston Has Premiere: Director Plays Noah in Film at Loew's State Fry's Script is Limited to Part of Genesis."  The New York Times (19 September 1966).  Online, http://www.nytimes.com/
movie /review?res=9D0DEFDC173CE43BBC4151DFBF66838D679EDE
, accessed 8 October 2016.
 
"Review: 'The Bible—In the Beginning....'"  Variety (31 December 1965).  Online, http://variety.com/1965/film/reviews/the-bible-in-the-beginning-1200421018/, accessed 8 October 2016.
 
 
 
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Genesis: The Creation and the Flood, dir. Ermanno Olmi (1994)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio [Genesis: The Creation and the Flood].  Produced by Franco Bollati; directed by Ermanno Olmi.  91 min.  Rai 1, Lux Vide, Lube Productions, 1994.  [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].

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Mode
 
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh.  "Scripture as Precursor."  In Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film (eds. George Aichele and Richard Walsh; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) vii-xvi.
 
Bach, Alice.  "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars."  Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Film Literature Index
 
Brook, Clodagh.  "Beyond Dialogue: Speech-silence, the Monologue, and Power in the Films of Ermanno Olmi."  Italianist 28:2 (2008) 268-80.
 
Brunetta, Gian Piero.  The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century, trans. Jeremy Parzen.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.
 
Young, Deborah.  "On Earth as It Is in Heaven."  Film Comment 37:2 (2001) 56, 6 pages.
 
 
Film Reviews
Because these are short and popular, you can read them, but they don't replace the need for at least two professional sources.
 
Holloway, Ron.  "Venice 1994: Ermanno Olim's Genesis."  Kinema 3 (Spring 1995) 8.
 
 
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Noah's Ark, dir. John Irvin (1999)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Noah's Ark.   Produced by Stephen Jones; directed by John Irvin.  160 min.  Babelsberg International Film Produktion/Hallmark Entertainment, 1999.  [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
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Mode
 
Goethals, Gregor.  "Images and Values: Television as Religious Communication."  In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 202-214.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
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In the Beginning, dir. Kevin Connor (2000)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
In the Beginning.   Produced by Robert Halmi, Jr., David V. Picker and Paul Lowin; directed by Kevin Connor.  189 min.  Hallmark Entertainment, 1994.  [format you watched it in: e.g., DVD, Netflix].
  • IMDb

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Italian subtitles, so you might want to find a streaming source
 
 
Mode
 
Goethals, Gregor.  "Images and Values: Television as Religious Communication."  In Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 202-214.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Film Literature Index
 
Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda.  The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film.  Boston: Walter de Bruyter, 2016.
 
 
Film Reviews
Because these are short and popular, you can read them, but they don't replace the need for at least two professional sources.
 
Fries, Laura.  "In the Beginning."  Daily Variety 269:50 (November 10, 2000) 19, 3/7 pages.
 
 
 
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Noah, dir. Darren Aronofsky (2014)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Noah. Produced by Scott Franklin, Mary Parent and Arnon Milchan; directed by Darren Aronofsky.  138 min.  Paramount Pictures, 2014.  [your access format.]

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Mode
 
Bach, Alice.  "'Throw Them to the Lions, Sire': Transforming Biblical Narratives into Hollywood Spectaculars."  Semeia 74 (1996) 1-13.
 
 
Noah's FloodSecondary Literature
 
Relevant Databases for Secondary Sources
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Source
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Film Literature Index
 
Brintnall, Kent L.  "What Noah Got Right, that Noah Got Wrong."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-noah-was-right, accessed [your access date].
 
Čapek, Filip.  "Pre(post)diluvial Hero for All?: Reflections on the Film Noah (2014)."  Communio viatorum 56:2 (2014) 211-16.
 
Carroll, Alexandra Nicewicz.  "The Archetypal Flood: Psychological Regeneration and Aronofsky's Noah."   Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-archetypal-flood, accessed [your access date].
 
Copier, Laura and Caroline Vander Stichele.  "Death and Disaster: 2012 Meets Noah."  In Close Encounters between Bible and Film: An Interdisciplinary Engagement (ed. Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele; Semeia Studies 87; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016) 155-71.
 
Cottrill, Amy C.  "Focusing on the Family: Innovation and Disappointment in Noah."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-focus-on-the-family, accessed [your access date].
 
Gafney, Wil.  "Noah: A White Savior Epic of Biblical Proportions."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-white-savior-epic, accessed [your access date].
 
Hays, Christopher B.  "Did God Want Noah Dead Too?: 'Anti-Human' Theology in Bible, Film, and Tradition."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-god-want-noah-dead, accessed [your access date].
 
Hendel, Ron.  "Character and Conscience: Did God Morph into Noah?"  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-character-and-conscience, accessed [your access date].
 
Kiel, Micah.  "Noah and Epistemology inthe 21st Century."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-and-epistemology-in-21st-century, accessed [your access date].
 
Laine, Tarja.  "Religion and Environmental Ethics: Darren Aronofsky's Noah."  In Close Encounters between Bible and Film: An Interdisciplinary Engagement (ed. Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele; Semeia Studies 87; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016) 173-86.
 
Lilly, Ingrid Esther.  "Noah's Flood as Environmental Apocalypse."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-environmental-apocalypse, accessed [your access date].
 
Markoe, Lauren.  "Darren Aronofsky: I'm Not Religious, but the Environmental Messages in 'Noah' Are."  Religion News Service 152:3 (24 April 2014). Online, http://www.religionnews.com/2014/04/24/noah-movie/, accessed 13 March 2015.
 
Marquis, Timothy Luckritz.  "How Noah Should Have Ended: Two Proposals."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-two-endings, accessed [your access date].
 
--------.  "Sex in Aronofsky's Noah."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-sex, accessed [your access date].
 
Martin, Erica L.  "Darren Aronofsky's Noah and Jewish Tradition."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-jewish-tradition, accessed [your access date].
 
McGeough, Kevin M.  "The Roles of Violence in Recent Biblical Cinema: The Passion, Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kings."  The Journal of Religion and Film 20:2 (2016) Article 35.  53 pages.  Online, http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol20/iss2/35, accessed [your access date].
 
Murphy, Kelly J.  "The Wives."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-the-wives, accessed [your access date].
 
Newland, Guy Martin.  "The Nonspeaking God: How Do I Know What God Wants from Me?"  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-nonspeaking-god, accessed [your access date].
 
Ployd, Adam.  "'A Glimmer of Adam': The Image of God in Aronofsky's Noah."   Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-glimmer-of-adam, accessed [your access date].
 
Recklis, Kathryn.  "Noah as a Main Character."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-main-character-, accessed [your access date].
 
Shectman, Sarah.  "What Was Biblical in the Movie Noah?"  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-what-was-biblical, accessed [your access date].
 
Smith, David L.  "Nietzche and Beckett at the Movies."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-nietzsche-and-beckett-, accessed [your access date].
 
Veenker, Ronald.  "Aronofksy's [sic] Biblical Ark."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/movie-noahs-ark-in-aronofsky-f, accessed [your access date].
 
Wyse-Rhodes, Jackie A.  "The Rock Giants and 1 Enoch's Watchers in Aronofsky's Noah."  Noah's Flood: Ancient Stories of Natural Cataclysm (2013).  Online, https://www.floodofnoah.com/noah-movie-rock-watchers, accessed [your access date].
 
 
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Mercy Is, Patti Smith and the Kronos Quartet, from the Film Noah
 
Primary Text Citation
 
Smith, Patti and the Kronos Quartet.  "Mercy Is" (from the movie Noah, dir. Darren Aronofsky).  Noah: Music from the Motion Picture.   Nonesuch.   2014.  MP3 file.  Downloaded [your download date.]  iTunes.
 
 
Mode
 
Exum, J. Cheryl.  Retellings: The Bible in Literature, Music, Art and Film.   Boston: Brill, 2007.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
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C.W.  "A Hushed Note to End Noah."   Hollywood Reporter 420:45 (26 December 2014) 2.
 
 
 
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The Ark (Ship of Fools)The Ark, Ship of Fools.com (2003)
 
Primary Text Citation
 
ShipofFools.com, "the magazine of Christian unrest."  "The Ark."   ShipofFools.com (2003).  Online game, http://ark.saintsimeon.co.uk/, [your access date].
 
 
Mode
 
Robson, Jon and Aaron Meskin.  "Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74:2 (2016) 165-77.
 
Wagner, Rachel.  Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.  New York: Routledge, 2012.
[esp. ch. 2]
 
 
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