[NYer]

Ping!

[Dr. Sivana]

but it was up to me consider how this story that is definitely older than the Bible managed to end up in the Bible,” he says.

How about, BECAUSE IT HAPPENED?!

[DannyTN]

Or Moses who was literate having grown up as a prince of Egypt, could have written the first 5 books like the scripture claims for itself, with Joshua adding the details of Moses death.

There is no reason to give Babylonian stories equal footing with scripture and to imagine a different narative of how scripture came to be other than the one recorded in scripture.

[DannyTN]

Or Moses who was literate having grown up as a prince of Egypt, could have written the first 5 books like the scripture claims for itself, with Joshua adding the details of Moses death.

There is no reason to give Babylonian stories equal footing with scripture and to imagine a different narative of how scripture came to be other than the one recorded in scripture.

[ApplegateRanch]

1750 BC, some 1,500 years before the Bible was written.

...and that is when I stopped reading.

That would put the writing of the Jewish Biblical texts concurrent with the Septuagint. Absolutely absurd.

Even his "...700 BC, close to the time that the Bible was written..." puts it firmly in the BS "Post Babylonian Exile" territory.

[Alex Murphy]

Ancient tablets featuring the Babylonian flood myth have been found before, mostly famously in 1872 by another British Museum Assyriologist, George Smith. The fact that the Smith tablet, which featured the story in full, originated in around 700 BC, close to the time that the Bible was written, gave those who stood steadfastly by the primacy of the Holy Book a reason to suggest one could have influenced the other. Finkel contends that the Simmonds tablet breaks through this argument as it dates back to 1750 BC, some 1,500 years before the Bible was written.

You might want to get in on this.

[Vaquero]

Epic of Gilgamesh. Some sort of flood happened. Could have been an ice dammed laurentide lake in North America that blew, filling the Atlantic then the Mediterranean then blowing into the Black Sea and down into Mesopotamia.

[colorado tanker]

One of those pings.

[rightwingcrazy]

Essentially, this article takes as a given that the Bible is fiction, to suggest that it’s not even an original fiction. I’m not sure why they would bother.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Furthermore, the tablet, which is currently on display in the British Museum, also says that the animals came on to the boat “two by two”. As Finkel puts it, this was an “electrifying” discovery.

Genesis 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

[RichInOC]

Uh, Doc, a lot of the stuff in the Bible happened well before it was written. Or do you think there was a guy with a clay tablet and stylus on the scene for everything back to the creation and fall?

[the_daug]

Funny how we are talking about the ark where, the word ark as used in Genesis and Exodus(for Moses salvation) is a loan word from Egyptian. But these people are sure Pentateuch was never written until after the Babylonian exile.

[Iscool]

Nice try Catholic Herald...Post some junk by an atheist to give some credence to the Catholic position that the Flood is a myth...Put ‘er in the round file with the rest of the trash...