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[2] I purposely use the masculine pronoun here because scribes were usually male, and I am not sure whether there were at any given point in the history of the transmission of biblical texts women writers. [3] This I think is the import of the Flood story to those who combined with other stories during the Exile: to give hope to the remnant that has survived the purifying waters that Isaiah announced in his time. It is a theme that can also be discerned in the way the Crossing of the Red Sea (cf. Exodus) has been combined with other stories during its final redaction (during the Exile too?). It is not surprising then that quite early in the history of Christianity, the Flood story became a symbol of the cleansing of the waters of baptism, with the wood of Noah's ark understood as the foreshadowing of the cross.
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