Noah

by Samuel Ben White

"As it was in the days of Noah ... " The world has become a dark, sinful place. The crops are dying. The morning dews that used to water everything are drying up. There is nowhere safe, nowhere secure, and no one wants to listen to the one man who tries to tell them that it doesn’t have to be this way. At five hundred years old, Noah is told by God to build an ark, to save the human race. As he builds the ark, Noah looks back on the five centuries he has lived—on the places he has been, the women he has loved, and the God he has served. With a wife beside him and three growing sons, he is building a gigantic boat miles from the sea in anticipation of a flood in a land that has never known rain. What if an inventor, say an Edison or a Leonardo—instead of sixty—had eight hundred years to invent? What if the antediluvian world were not made up of hunter-gatherers and the beginnings of an agrarian society, but of spacefarers and scientists? And what if it were into a world like that that God spoke to tell one of the preeminent scientists of the day to build an ark of wood?

533 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 11, 2018