Troy wrote:
>If the flood was literal and global ...
More like literal and local.
> (as I believe it was), where did the water come from?
The overflowing Euphrates river from Spring rain.
>Is our current geography a post-flood phenomenon, such that
>melted ice caps could have covered all land?
No.
>Did the water come from "the deep?"
The Hebrew word for "deep" can mean the sea, it can refer to
subterranean waters, or it can mean the depths of a river. The
Accadians and Sumerians spoke of any body of water as the
"deep" including the irrigation canals which had some sort of
watering apparatus they called "fountains." In the Atrahasis
flood epic, the phrases "fountains of the deep" or "fountain of the
deep" appear four times. In all instances, fountain(s) pertain to
"fields," as in this example:
Be[low] the fountain of the deep was stopped, [that the
flood rose not at the source].
The field diminished [its fertility].
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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