Editing Noah's Ark (section)

===Composition===
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A consensus among scholars indicates that the [[Torah]] (the first five books of the Bible, beginning with Genesis) was the product of a long and complicated process that was not completed until after the [[Babylonian exile]].{{sfn|Enns|2012|p=23}} Since the 18th century, the flood narrative has been analysed as a paradigm example of the combination of two different versions of a story into a single text, with one marker for the different versions being a consistent preference for different names "Elohim" and "Yahweh" to denote God.<ref>Richard Elliot Friedman (1997 ed.), ''Who Wrote the Bible'', p. 51.</ref>