The Lost World of the Flood Quotes

“Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication”
― Tremper Longman III, The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate

“That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.”
― Tremper Longman III, The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate