Bill -- I don't doubt what you're saying. If the Babel story is more than a
local dispersion of a local group of people, no doubt it has to be dated
much earlier than the geneologies suggest. For those who hold that the
geneologies are relatively complete, I'm curious how the Babel story is
understood.
On 3/17/06, Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> I believe linguists can study the history of languages and make family
> trees
> showing the development and interrelationships. I suspect a linguist would
> say
> that there could be no language bottleneck as recently as Babel is
> conventionally dated (i.e. by the genealogies) Is there a linguist on the
> list
> to either confirm or shame my nonexpert babbling?
>
> Bill Hamilton
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