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.

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.