Re: Question for Dick (or anyone else)

It doesn't *have* to be the AIG model. A local flood's fame perhaps could
have spread to other cultures. And the tower of Babel story is in our
Bibles too. If that story isn't merely allegorical, God dipersed some
people from somewhere local to the flood, and they might have carried the
flood story to other cultures. What do folks here make of the Babel story?

On 3/17/06, jack syme <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
>
> Call it the AIG model of the flood. ;) Of course in the AIG model all
> people are descendants of Noah, since the global flood destroyed all of
> the
> Earth. And that after the tower of Babel all peoples were spread
> throughout
> the Earth. The flood stories in this model are all based on Noah, and
> the
> differences are from the tower of Babel incident. (I am not at all
> proposing the AIG model as true, just that the idea that the flood stories
> might all be retellings of the same original event in the distant past.)
>
> I wonder though if it possible to make a geneological "tree" and to
> place
> all of the stories in this tree and to hopefully find the root of the
> tree.
> The different "mutations" in the stories could be compared and stories
> with
> less differences would be more closely related, etc, just like it is done
> with DNA. Obviously I am not a linguist, but am curious if there is such
> a
> way to do this.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
> To: "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Question for Dick (or anyone else)
>
>
> > Jack has raised a really interesting question -- and put a slant on it I
> > haven't heard before: the idea that the flood or floods in these legends
> > could
> > have taken place before the tribe migrated to its current location. I
> have
> > a
> > book on the Navajo creation story at home. I'll take a look and see if
> it
> > has
> > a flood legend. Of course I'll probably have to look elsewhere for
> timing
> > ...
> >
> > --- jack syme <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Is it ture that there are flood accounts, that are told by North
> American
> >> Indians, Aborigines, and Central American Indians? Is there a single
> >> source
> >> that locates these accounts side by side so that they can be compared?
> >>
> >> I wonder if the age, and location of this event could be determined by
> >> retracing migration patterns? The more isolated the tribe the better
> of
> >> course because that would reduce the chance that the story was heard
> from
> >> another tribe instead of being passed down inside the tribe.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Bill Hamilton
> > William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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> > "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
> >
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Received on Fri Mar 17 10:52:35 2006