Global Flood Stories Episodes

Moving beyond Mesopotamia and into the Greek flood traditions as part of our wider series on global flood stories. The Greeks certainly had myths about a flood, but do Greek flood narratives actually function as strong evidence for a single ancient global flood remembered independently across cultures? To answer that, we revisit our methodology. Not all flood traditions carry the same evidential weight. We have to ask where a story comes from, how it was transmitted, what genre it belongs to,...

Oral tradition can function as real evidence—sometimes. But it’s not automatically reliable, and it isn’t always “just a telephone game,” either. In this episode, we lay down guardrails for how to evaluate worldwide flood traditions critically and fairly—without sliding into cynicism, speculation, or wishful thinking. We build an “evaluation toolkit” for weighing flood stories as evidence: provenance (who recorded it, when, and from whom), transmission setting (ritual/public context, custodia...

The first and primary parallel flood accounts to Genesis are the flood stories from Mesopotamia.  Seeing how close these stories are to the narrative in Genesis will give us plenty to discuss in the future, and this will also help us investigate the question of the "many" flood accounts of the ancient world. Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atrahasis Epic along with commentary on how this can begin to inform our Bible study...and as always, our understanding of God! **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com  My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genesismarksthespot Genesis Marks the Spot on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genesismarksthespot/  Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan  Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/ Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan