Nineteenth-Century Adventist Understanding of the Flood

The important Flood concepts enunciated by Ellen White in Spiritual Gifts III and other publications/articles, together with those presented by other nineteenth-century Adventist pioneers such as Uriah Smith and Alonzo Jones are reviewed. The sources from which these ideas may have been derived are also explored. It is noted that most, if not all, the extra-biblical material can be found in works, often by then somewhat discredited, leading up to the period