Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison take Text and Rockers into the deluge...and shut the ark door behind you. First they talk about how to line up literary stations to compare parallel ancient texts. Then they line up parts of the flood account with the story of Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Finally, they ask what it means that Yahweh decides on and carries out the great flood for the biblical writers. Exploring a couple of rabbinical comments on elements of the story, Mark and Eric talk about what to do with fantastic elements in sacred texts as a modern.