A man is appointed by God to carry out a crucial mission of rescue before a calamitous flood destroys the world.

The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth ... and the ark floated on the face of the waters (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV). In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled searches for remnants of the ark on Mount Ararat, and inspired...