Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization Wilson IanPaperback
Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization Wilson IanPaperback In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth…
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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization Wilson IanPaperback
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened in the year 2348 B.C., calculating what was then taken as the age of the earth and working backward through the entire series of Biblical "begats." Proof of the flood, which is an element of so many creation myths, began in earnest when archaeology started connecting physical evidence with Biblical story. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation.
The dream of proving the Bible as literal truth has proven irresistible, producing both spurious claims and serious