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Noah

Builder of the ark and righteous survivor of the flood. The Bible gives him 950 years; the Qur'an devotes Surah 71 to his name and portrays him as preaching for centuries before the judgement. In both traditions he is the father of the post-flood human race.

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Noah as a comparative study.

The Great Flood
A worldwide deluge sent as divine judgment, from which a single righteous man saves his family and representative life aboard a vessel. Versions appear across Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Christian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions — evidence of shared cultural memory or independent theological convergence is debated by scholars.

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