Posted on 12/16/2013 10:52:52 AM PST by Theoria
New evidence suggests that Noah's Ark was round, made from reeds and the length of six double-decker buses.
For years, archaeologists have scoured the world for factual evidence for the Bible story of Noah's flood, but due to scant documentation, many believe the fable to be an Old Testament myth.
Now, however, a new book claims that Noah's Ark was a round coracle and looked very different from its traditional image.
In The Ark Before: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel, there are claims that the vessel had two decks with cabins for the animals.
British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000-year-old piece of clay enabled a new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth.
The evidence comes from a 4,700-year-old tablet of clay covered in cuneiform writing, which contains "detailed instruction manual for building an ark," says Finkel, an assistant keeper of the ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures department at the British Museum.
Finkel, an expert in deciphering ancient cuneiform script, discovered the text contained instructions for building a round coracle 65 metres in diameter, with walls six metres high. It was apparently made from ropes and rushes waterproofed with bitumen, and the animals were loaded "two by two", according to the Sunday Times.
The tablet was originally found in the Middle East by Leonard Simmons, who served in the RAF from 1945-48. However, the ancient artefact wasn't subject to any research until Simmons's son Douglas took it to the British Museum in 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
“There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”
Plate tectonics is the answer you are looking for. The sea life on mountain tops is quite a bit older than any human species, so even if a flood sent them up there to die when the water receded no human would have been around to witness this to build. And the fossils found had forming there for much longer than 40 days and nights.
How could 100 different cultures scattered throughout the world have the same story if the only people that survived were from just one of those cultures?
Thanks for the link.
The flood story was an earlier story of Gilgamesh by the Sumerians.
The diaspora during the building of the Tower of Babel occurred after the flood. So, Noah survived the flood, the story was passed to his descendants. Noah's descendants tried to build a tower to reach to Heaven.
God confused their tongues. The people spread out with different languages and started different cultures.....all descending from Noah; all with knowledge of the flood.
Well, that clears that right up then.
I am guessing wood, hammered into holes along with wool or human hair to help seal it up.
? Adam and Eve ate meat, and Cain and Able’s difficulties had to do with that very point.
Read Genesis 9-11.
The Reader's Digest Version:
Eight people survive the Flood and land on Mt. Ararat. Noah, Mrs. Noah, Noah's 3 sons (Japeth, Shem, Ham), and their 3 wives. They have children, and they spread across the earth.
Over time, the stories they heard from their grandfathers, and great grandfathers get a bit corrupted/twisted along the way. Thus you have the same story, but with slight variations or embellishments.
God kept the original facts by using one family, the Hebrews, to be the keepers of His Oracles (God's Word) until the time of Christ. So, even though the Hebrews and non-Hebrews came from the same family (all from the ark that landed at Mt. Ararat), only the Biblical version was left intact because God protected it -- so mankind would always have a record of His message and love.
So, not really rivets, but pegs?
If the Government was to build an Ark it would be 6 months late getting it done and it would leak like a sieve and all the animals would be gay!
There’s a difference between “humans ate meat” and “God gave permission for humans to eat meat”.
Can you provide scripture saying that A & E ate meat?
I can’t recall that.
rofl
Isn’t the way they usually built things back then?
This is to be taken literally?
pegs make more sense because they swell when wet.
But, I guess, if you insist, no direct permission was granted.
I don’t care what he found.....prove it was noah’s...can’t be done....can’t even prove there was a noah
Just doing some reading on the topic myself - Abel was accounted as righteous, therefore he obeyed God, and the command to that point was “herbs only”.
Now, that’s not to say that the sinful of the time didn’t eat meat.
LOL!
You sound like me my first 40 years. I'd like to encourage you to avoid the bumping your head off various walls - like a pinball - and to take the Bible literally ... but I know if I was hearing this claim years ago - I wouldn't take the advice. I hope you catch on quicker than I did.
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