That's so great to hear; it's definitely a great topic to explore - excited to read it in due time!
In other places, we see new interpretations concerning humanity's duty to the earth as caretakers -- this is something that Darren Aronofsky elevated in his film Noah (2014).
Other times, the transformation from pious believer to immortal life is elevated. This can be witnessed by Ut-napishtim's presentation in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as Syncellus' telling of the flood story according to Berossus.
In the earliest accounts of this story, and later recognized by Muslim historians, was the understanding that this was not a single-family issue. Pious figures like Atra-hasis and Nūḥ were paramount, as was their decision to board additional families and craftspeople.
For me, it was really eye-opening to develop what certain aspects of these flood accounts, from the 19th century BCE through to today, are picked up and left out in order to detail the importance of these promises for a number of different peoples.
The main goal for this presentation was to showcase how the flood narrative, known best via the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, was a typical account focused around the promises and duties shared between divine authorities and humanity.
I presented to a general education course titled "Stories from the End of the World", which focuses on how the genre of apocalypse has been used to discuss critical moments in history related to social, political, and personal (opportunities of) transformation.
in classics we often write in anticipation and defense of hostile interlocutors, but what if we wrote to the imagined reader we’d most like to have