Antediluvian Era Gen ch8

Scrolls not written yet. All oral tradition with some stones or caves recording parts of stories. Later the oral and stone stories would be formally redacted into the versions called Samaritan Pentateuch, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, Masoretic Text. A helpful visual for multi-layered ethnic groups is https://amazingbibletimeline.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopRlI6A9amh6RbWT_pJYcAGHK2hFt12FVnP2bXb1oeZhB9kBeuM