Honors College Theses

Publication Date

11-27-2018

Major

English (B.A.)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (open access)

Faculty Mentor

Dr. Joseph Pellegrino

Abstract

In various cultures, stories of great floods have arisen, and many scholars agree that the writers of these stories based their accounts on an actual flooding event. However, these narratives vary in characters, plot, and even their meaning to each culture. This thesis examines several Laurasian flood narratives, perhaps the most ancient narratives in Western literature, including those of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Sumerian, and Israeli cultures. These civilizations all rose and existed in close proximity to one another, which makes the historicity of a flooding event more probable. A structural examination of the narratives and a comparison of their commonalities allows for a consideration of the civilizations from which they came.

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