The question we must ask then is this: How do we carry on after the flood? How do we rebuild, without a neat, happily-ever-after? This week’s Torah portion, Noah, depicts despair after disaster.

According to the Bible, Noah's Ark saved humanity and all the animals from certain annihilation during an ancient flood. Now, ...

Almond (The Buddha), a professor emeritus of religion at Queensland University, comprehensively chronicles more than two millennia of scholarship on the biblical story of the flood. Ancient and ...