הרס במים ואש במגילה החיצונית לבראשית ובספרות קרובה

This paper focuses on an ancient Jewish tradition regarding the destruction of the world by both water and fire in the days of Noah. This tradition is shared by the Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Book of Giants; the present study is based upon a close look at the Genesis Apocryphon, and suggests some new readings and interpretations for that text. Traditions about an eschatological destruction by both fire and water are also found in some earlier and later Hellenistic, Jewish, and Christian sources, as described by other authors in this thematic section of Meghillot.