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fāra فَارَ Lane's Lexicon Dictionary [https://lexicon.quranic-research.net/pdf/Page_2456.pdf p2456] & [https://lexicon.quranic-research.net/pdf/Page_2457.pdf p2457]</ref> as well as in the other verse where the same root is used as a verb {{Quran|67|7}}. The possible meaning of the oven "boiling" water from the Earth to flood it in the following verses has been interpreted by some scholars as a metaphor for hell, as Wheeler and Noegel (2010) note it is also described as a 'pit' in which there are fires (e.g. {{Quran-range|101|9|11}}).<ref>Ibid.</ref> Other evidence not mentioned by them includes the [[Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Setting in a Muddy Spring - Part One|warm muddy spring the sun sets in]] at night and possibly comes out of on the other side of the world. | fāra فَارَ Lane's Lexicon Dictionary [https://lexicon.quranic-research.net/pdf/Page_2456.pdf p2456] & [https://lexicon.quranic-research.net/pdf/Page_2457.pdf p2457]</ref> as well as in the other verse where the same root is used as a verb {{Quran|67|7}}. The possible meaning of the oven "boiling" water from the Earth to flood it in the following verses has been interpreted by some scholars as a metaphor for hell, as Wheeler and Noegel (2010) note it is also described as a 'pit' in which there are fires (e.g. {{Quran-range|101|9|11}}).<ref>Ibid.</ref> Other evidence not mentioned by them includes the [[Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Setting in a Muddy Spring - Part One|warm muddy spring the sun sets in]] at night and possibly comes out of on the other side of the world. | ||
More recent scholarship, however, particularly by Olivier Mongellaz in 2024,<ref name="Mongellaz2024">Olivier Mongellaz (2024) [https://brill.com/view/journals/arab/71/4-5/article-p513_4.xml Le four de Noé : un cas d’intertextualité coranique], Arabica 71(4-5), 513-637. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-20246900</ref> has identified that these verses very likely reflect a late antique legend in which water gushing up through a bread oven (a large hole dug into the ground) | More recent scholarship, however, particularly by Olivier Mongellaz in 2024,<ref name="Mongellaz2024">Olivier Mongellaz (2024) [https://brill.com/view/journals/arab/71/4-5/article-p513_4.xml Le four de Noé : un cas d’intertextualité coranique], Arabica 71(4-5), 513-637. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-20246900</ref> has identified that these verses very likely reflect a late antique legend in which water gushing up through a bread oven (a large hole dug into the ground) was a sign warning Noah's family of the imminent flood (see [[Parallels_Between_the_Qur'an_and_Late_Antique_Judeo-Christian_Literature#Noah's_flood_waters_overflowed_from_an_oven|Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature]]). | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|11|40}}|[So it was], until when Our command came and the oven overflowed, We said, "Load upon the ship of each [creature] two mates and your family, except those about whom the word has preceded, and [include] whoever has believed." But none had believed with him, except a few.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|11|40}}|[So it was], until when Our command came and the oven overflowed, We said, "Load upon the ship of each [creature] two mates and your family, except those about whom the word has preceded, and [include] whoever has believed." But none had believed with him, except a few.}} | ||