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=== In Christian tradition ===
Early Christian writers created elaborate allegorical meanings for Noah and the Ark. The [[New Testament]] ([[1 Peter|Pet]] 3:20–21), states that the salvation of those aboard the Ark through the waters of the Flood prefigures the Christian being saved through baptism
On a more practical plane, [[Origen]] (c. 182–251), responding to a critic who doubted that the Ark could contain all the animals in the world, countered with a learned argument about cubits, holding that Moses, the traditional author of the book of Genesis, had been brought up in [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] and would therefore have used the larger Egyptian cubit; he also fixed the shape of the Ark as a truncated pyramid, rectangular rather than square at its base, and tapering to a square peak one cubit on a side.<ref>Origen, ''Homilia in Genesim II.2'' (quoted in Cohn, p.38.)</ref> It was not until the 12th century that it came to be thought of as a rectangular box with a sloping roof.
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