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 ...
Selections from Immanuel Velikovsky’s
Worlds in Collision (1950)
’ The astronomers and the geologists whose concern is all this ..... should judge of the causes
which could effect the derangement of the day and could cover the earth with tenebrosity,’
wrote a clergyman who spent many years in Mexico and in the libraries of the Old World
which store ancient manuscripts of the Mayas and works of early Indian and Spanish authors
about them.
[Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, 1950]
http://www.spirasolaris.ca/wic.pdf
6. In the manuscripts of Avila and Molina, who collected the traditions of the Indians of the New
World, it is related that the sun did not appear for five days, a cosmic collision of stars preceded the
cataclysm; people and animals tried to escape to mountain caves. ‘Scarcely had they reached there, when
the sea, breaking out of bounds following a terrifying shock, began the rise of the pacific coast. But as
the sea rose, filling the valleys and the plains around, the mountain of Ancasmarca rose too, like a ship
on the waves. During the five days that this cataclysm lasted, the sun did not show its face and the earth
remained in darkness.’
For pleasure? I imagine the food must have been delicious in that perfect garden.
you can wear the skin of an animal who died of old age, trauma,lightniung strike , whatever....you can also eat some of them.........if not too old!!!
Believing n the bible requires suspension of disbelief....a lot of it.
Didn’t realize that. Here’s the article:
How long can you tread water?
My comments were not about “before the fall” but after, but before the flood.
Yes, but also before when you said:
“Eating and Death are very deep topics.
Death entered the world post fall, long before the flood.”
So no death before the fall. There would be no need to eat, there was no biological process required for it, so why would they eat the fruit of any tree?
For the same reason they enjoyed sex, for the enjoyment.
(Sigh). I suppose so. and the animals can also voluntarily just peel their skins off. Anything to prove a minor point.
The drowning of the coasts, especially in SEA and the Persian Gulf circa 4000 BC with the ocean rise of that time.
if God didn't want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat??
They DID eat — As Jesus did after his resurrection.
BUT they ate the fruit of the tree of life.
BTW, in heaven, this tree will be restored, literally.
All of creation was meant to be immortal.
Death is, sort of, an infection. Look at our bodies. They repair themselves, but fall to aging. If there was no aging, we would be immortal (other than disease processes). We will have (in heaven) real, physical bodies that are perfected and immortal.
Seems strange to me that immortal creatures would have to eat. There would be no purpose. Why would it even come to mind as an activity in which to engage.
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