Archaeology and Genesis part II -The Flood
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- NOTE: To view the chart which compares the major flood epics: watch in hi quality and pause. ------------------------------------------ One of the most questioned accounts of the Bible is the flood of Noah's time. A century ago liberal critics considered it one of the most far-fetched biblical myths. After the last century of archaeological digging has revealed accounts of the flood in the earliest of civilizations the Genesis account has been vindicated. These ancient tablets are by no means the only external corroboration of the biblical flood narrative. An enterprising historian, Aaron Smith, is said to have patiently tallied all the flood stories he could find. He came across 80,000 works in 72 languages about the deluge (Werner Keller, The Bible as History, 1980, p. 38). Certainly if Noahâs flood were just a local event affecting people in a limited geographic region, its impact would not have been etched indelibly into the minds of so many far-flung peoples. One historian notes: "The Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of Mesopotamia might well be expected to cherish a similar tradition to that of the Hebrews, since they lived so close to the presumed seat of antediluvian civilization . . . Butwhat shall we say of the legend of Manu preserved among the Hindus . . . or of Fah-he among the Chinese . . . or of Nu-u among the Hawaiians; or of Tezpi among the Mexican Indians; or of Manabozho among the Algonquins? . . . All of these agree that all mankind was destroyed by a great flood (usually represented as worldwide) as a result of divine displeasure at human sin, and that a single man with his family or a very few friends survived the catastrophe by means of a ship or raft or large canoe of some sort."(Archer, p. 209).
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