RE: [asa] The Fall of man (Adamites- the local/global flood question)

Genesis doesn't but the Sumerian king list and at least one other source
I found place Ziusudra at Shuruppak - not too far from the city of Enoch
mentioned both in Genesis and in the SKL.

Dick Fischer, author, lecturer
Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham
www.historicalgenesis.com

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Subject: RE: [asa] The Fall of man (Adamites- the local/global flood
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Dehler, Bernie wrote:

> John Walley said:
> "I can't help to be intrigued by how, other than the location and
> possibly the date, the Black Sea flood otherwise fits Noah's flood as
> being local, sudden and catastrophic."
> the global flood lasted a year).
>

Genesis doesn't tell us where Noah lived before the Flood, and it gives
us
only the general region where the ark rested. Since gaps were fairly
common in Biblical genealogies, it also doesn't pin down a date. I seem
to
recall that Glenn Morton in rejecting the Black Sea flood explanation
said
that the water wouldn't have risen fast enough.

>
> If there's any solution at all to Noah and the ark, it must be a myth
to
> teach spiritual things. In real life, the flood story doesn't add-up
> (as a real local or global flood).
>

Although it seems quite reasonable for every culture to have some sort
of
creation story, it hardly seems necessary for someone to invent a flood
myth. Yet the Hebrews were not alone in having such a story. This seems
to
suggest that there must have been an extraordinary event that was behind

the story. Attempts to identify this event are not confined to Christian

sources but pop up from time to time in secular publications.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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