Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story and Natural Disasters in Early Modern Times. (1st May 2003)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kempe, Michael
• Is Part Of: Environment and history. Volume 9:Number 2(2003:Apr.)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 171
• Publication Date: 2003-05-01
• Subjects: Noah's flood -- deluge -- natural disaster -- relationship between man and nature -- perception -- world-makers -- Thomas Burnett -- Johann Jakob Scheuchzer -- history of the earth -- diluvium -- diluvialism -- catastrophism -- uniformitarianism -- physico-theology; Human ecology -- History -- Periodicals; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Periodicals; 304.209
• DOI: 10.3197/096734003129342809
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-3407

Abstract

Abstract : Different interpretations of the biblical deluge give us an idea of various modes of perceptions of natural disasters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In analysing these interpretations we learn much about early modern European ways of thinking about nature, mankind and the relationship between both. In this way such an analysis becomes an important part of an ambitious project of environmental history that deals with relationships between man and nature in history.