From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 19:00:59 EDT
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From: "gordon brown" <gbrown@euclid.Colorado.EDU>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: RATE
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jay Willingham wrote:
>
> > One could hypothesize that Pangea's division began in the time of Peleg
of
> > Genesis 10:25, "Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, [ 10:25
> > [Peleg] means [ division ] . ] because in his time the earth was
divided;
> > his brother was named Joktan."
>
> Wouldn't it be better to look for an interpretation that fits the context,
> one that might be relevant to the account? I am not too sure what the
> right interpretation is, but I note that Genesis breaks up the genealogy
> from Shem into two lines, one from Joktan and one from Peleg. Maybe the
> land ('erets) is divided between these two groups. Both resided in the
> Middle East.
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
That may be.
It might also be when private property holding was first recorded.
It might have been a post-Babel miraculous change, putting water between
the different tongues that had caused the changed peoples to separate on
Pangea.
Do you know of a detailed sequence available on-line for the current
thinking on the form of Pangea's break up and where it is headed from now?
Jay Willingham
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