Question: if everyone but Noah and family were wiped out, how would current Samarians have any memory of it?
Sumerians I mean
because the Sumarians would be descendants of one of Noah’s sons and the story would be passed down through the generations.
Hopefully, I get this right: Noah lived about 1,000 years, and his sons would have lived almost as long. The sons were born about 100 years before the Flood, and about age 300, the boys got their 1/3 land allottment. About 100 years later, after the Tower of Babel, Ham, who would have been pushing 400, took his family to his allottment. So if a generation was 1000 years, even cut in half to 500 years, it wouldn’t be that hard for several generations of grandpa’s to remember the Flood and pass the story down. As time progressed, each generation died younger and younger. Abraham died age 175 and Moses died at 120 years old. Moses’ generation remembered the Flood so it’s not a stretch the Sumarians probably would too since it was part of their origin story.