Re: Possible Ark Landing Places

Dave, thanks! That's what I meant!

On 3/17/06, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
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> David,
> You've got it backward. 9th to 7th centuries BC is about 6 centuries after
> Moses and about 2 millennia after the date of the flood.
> Dave
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> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:33:23 -0500 "David Opderbeck" <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
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> Apropos of something Phil mentioned a while back, it's interesting that
> this link states that Urartu was a well-deliniated kingdom in the area
> surrounding Lake Van at the time Moses wrote the Pentatuch. I recently
> picked up a really lovely book by Michael Rolf called "The Cultural Atlas of
> Mesopotamia" that has a short section on Urartu. The book indicates that
> Urartu flourished from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC in the area
> described. This would be something like 600 years before Moses presumably
> wrote the Pentatuch, and probably at least 2000 years before the flood. So
> it does seem that even the assumed identification of this region with Urartu
> is unlikely.
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> On 3/17/06, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > Christian Information Ministries has a paper on the web that discusses
> > the possible landing places that we argued about recently.
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> > http://webserver.fni.com/cim/technicals/noah.html
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> > Dick Fischer
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> > ~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
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> > Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
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> > www.genesisproclaimed.org
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Received on Sat Mar 18 00:13:10 2006