Editing Noah (section)

===Dead Sea scrolls===
[[File:Genesis apocryphon.jpg|thumb|[[Genesis Apocryphon]], a portion of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] that features Noah]]

There are 20 or so fragments of the [[Dead Sea scrolls]] that appear to refer to Noah.<ref>Peters, DM., [https://books.google.com/books?id=MXU3PTrFe6gC&q=%22words+on+noah%22+twenty ''Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity''], Society of Biblical Lit, 2008, pp. 15–17.</ref> [[Lawrence Schiffman]] writes, "Among the Dead Sea Scrolls at least three different versions of this legend are preserved."<ref>Schiffman, LH., ''Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume 2'', Granite Hill Publishers, 2000, pp. 613–614.</ref> In particular, "The [[Genesis Apocryphon]] devotes considerable space to Noah." However, "The material seems to have little in common with Genesis 5 which reports the birth of Noah." Also, Noah's father is reported as worrying that his son was actually fathered by one of the [[Watcher (angel)|Watchers]].<ref>Lewis, Jack Pearl, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mO_H2lVTyhkC&q=%22the+offspring+of+the+Watchers%22&pg=PA11 ''A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature''], BRILL, 1968, p. 11. "the offspring of the Watchers".</ref>