Noah's Ark (miniseries) Noah's Ark (miniseries) Noah's Ark is a 1999 American television miniseries directed by John Irvin and starring Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, Jonathan Cake, Alexis Denisof, Emily Mortimer, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and James Coburn. The film tells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis. It was initially televised in the United States, that same year, was also televised in Canada, Germany and Portugal, among other countries. The film portrays Noah as a resident of Sodom and Gomorrah. The two towns are fighting each other simply for the amusement of their residents. During
Book of Noah During the early parts of the second century B.C. a pseudepigraphon circulated that contained considerable material concerning Noah. The tradition was not merely oral but had been written down, since the author of Jubilees and of an interpolation in the Testament of Levi 18:2 refer to a 'Book of Noah'. The work is now lost except for excerpts preserved in 1 Enoch and Jubilees, for 21 fragments preserved in Qumran Cave 1, and for two large fragments found in Cave 4 that are not yet published. Fragment 4Q534 of the Book of Noah in the Dead sea scrolls describes the