Is There a Flood Tradition in Egypt?

There is no flood tradition in egyp. The the text in genesis seems to treat it as a real event. But nowhere else in the old testament does it refer back to noah's flog, ok? And then kind of the the drop the mike moment argument in your book,. As you say, that Genesis six to nine pertains to a local flood described rhetorically as a world wide flood to make a theological point. Now, aren't some literalists going to be really upset about that? So if i understand that correctly, you're saying there was a real flood, but it was not a global flood. It was a local flood, but biblical authors write about