RE: [asa] RE: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

Hi Bill, you wrote:

>>This is perhaps a very important point. Can you point to references
that
document that Genesis 1-11 "had been handed down to the children of
Israel as
the history of their people beginning with Adam and Noah and Abraham in
southern Mesopotamia"?<<

Well, we can be pretty sure it's the history of the Semites and Arabs.
The question is: Is it anybody else's history? One interesting point I
hadn't thought of until I started digging back into ANE history again.
The setting for the entirity of Genesis 2-11 is southern Mesopotamia.
Notice that artifacts of bronze were manufactured by Adamites prior to
the flood.

There is no source of copper ore in all of Mesopotamia. It had to be
imported from coppermines in either Iran, Anatolia or perhaps the Gulf
region. This alludes to trade that had developed in Sumer and Akkad,
where there is a scarcity in mineral sources, with other regions who
received wheat, barley and beer in return.

Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org

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Received on Wed Jun 14 00:46:46 2006