Re: 2900 BC vs. 2350 BC

From: Dick Fischer (dickfischer@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 20:41:29 EDT

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    Mike wrote:

    >Paul wrote: The Flood of Gilgamesh, and probably of the Bible, is dated by
    >Near Eastern archaeologists at c. 2900 BC. See Dick Fischer's book or Carol
    >Hill's article "A Time and Place for Noah" Perspectives March, 2001. The
    >primary paper is Max Mallowan, "Noah's Flood Reconsidered," Iraq 26 (1964).
    >
    >I'm aware of this. I think they are wrong. I'll bet on the 2350 BC tree ring
    >study date/ Bible chronology date.

    First, you have to correlate a meteor impact with a flood. One does
    not necessarily
    follow the other. The world was divided in Peleg's day - a meteor
    might do that.

    Yours in Christ,

    Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
    "The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"



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