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To: Zionist Conspirator
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.

9 posted on 02/13/2014 9:50:09 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy
You might want to get in on this.

Sorry. Not while my mother is in the hospital.

21 posted on 02/13/2014 3:43:59 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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