The genealogy from Adam (the first man, according to the Bible) to Noah is as follows:
Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.
Literal readings lead to inconsistencies, like overlapping lifespans (e.g., Noah outliving Abraham by 58 years, unmentioned in narratives) and textual variants across Masoretic, Septuagint, and Samaritan versions.
29and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which Elohim YHWH hath cursed.
30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The Atrahasis Epic is considered one of the earliest known accounts of a great flood and shares similarities with other flood myths, including the biblical story of Noah.
Alexander Winchell proposed that Genesis 4 is pre Deluge, perhaps the 500th year of Noah.
And Enlil said unto Noah, Come thou you and all thy your house into the ark; for thee you have I seen righteous before me in this generation bloodline.
Anu remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10 – Noah’s offspring
Samuel Noah Kramer believes that behind this myth of Enki's confinement of Abzu lies an older one of the struggle between Enki and the Dragon Kur (the underworld).
What is the relationship between Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah?
Noah is the Hebrew Bible flood survivor in Genesis 6-9.
Then comes the bird test that makes this tablet the clearest Mesopotamian parallel to Noah’s dove.
Immortality at the Mouth of the Rivers is the Mesopotamian gift parallel to Noah’s covenant.
Genesis 6-9 tells Noah’s flood in the Hebrew Bible.
Noah finds favor.
Noah sends birds.
Noah again sent out the dove from the ark.
In the evening, the dove returned with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her mouth, indicating to Noah that the waters had subsided from the earth.
Across Ziusudra, Utnapishtim, and Noah the shared beats are clear:
The three-name map gives me Mesopotamia-to-Bible flood-survivor continuity: Ziusudra, Utnapishtim, Noah, with Berossus holding Ziusudra as Xisuthrus.
They are three flood survivors in one comparative tradition: Sumerian Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis), Akkadian Utnapishtim (Gilgamesh XI / Atrahasis neighborhood), and biblical Noah (Genesis 6-9).
Noah’s ark story ends in covenant under YHWH.
Genesis has Noah’s dove return with an olive leaf (Genesis 8:10-11).