Metamorphoses , tr. Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington: Indiana University

For scepticism over the universality of theories, see Stith Thompson, 'Myths and Folktales’,

Journal of American Folklore , 68 (1955): 482-8; G. S. Kirk,

Myth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970), p. 7.

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On the history of creationism, see Ronald L. Numbers,

The Creationists (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).

On scientific reinterpretation of the Noah myth, see, for example, William Ryan and Walter Pitman,

Noah’s Flood (London: Simon and Schuster, 1999). For a superb collection of the array of ways that flood stories worldwide have been approached, see Alan Dundes (ed.),

The Flood Myth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

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