Health & Life Sciences
Medicine, public health, biology, and biotechnology.
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Mount Judi, Not Mount Ararat: A Reassessment of the Traditional Search Location for the Resting Place of Noah's Ark
This paper presents a combined historical-linguistic and geographic analysis of the Qur'anic account of the Flood of Nuh (Noah). It argues, in three connected parts, that: (1) the Qur'anic account is consistent with the archaeologically attested Shuruppak flood horizon (c. 2900 BCE) and with the broader cuneiform Mesopotamian flood tradition, including the Sumerian King List, the Atra-Hasis Epic,