The Deluge by Francis Danby, 1840
Posted on 03/19/2020 9:41:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Matthew Sibson has put forward a theory that the story actually retold a great flood in the Middle East, where Egypt's high-rankers used the Great Pyramid of Giza to shield from disaster.
Mr Sibson's theory is based on a bombshell discovery in 2016, he revealed on his YouTube Channel "Ancient Architects".
He said last week: "The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds more than 50 years ago in the Qumran Caves in the Judean Desert of the West Bank near the Dead Sea.
"The find contained around 800 manuscripts, thought to be around 2,000 years old and contain a range of biblical and non-biblical stories, offering experts a glimpse into the past.
"Some have called it the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, but scientists working at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library Project scanned tens of thousands of fragments of the scrolls with a custom-made camera, that used different wavelengths of light at 28 times higher resolution than standard scans.
"Previously illegible words could now be read.
"Before then, regarding the story of Noah's Ark, scholars had been unable to read a particular word following the Hebrew phrase 'the ark's tallness,' but the new scans revealed the word 'ne'esefat.'
"The translation of this word from Hebrew to English means gathered, which Dr Alexey Yuditsky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says means that the ark's ribs were gathered at the top to form a shape of a pyramid."
...He added: "According to Yuditsky, the Septuagint - a Greek translation of the Old Testament, which dates to the third century BC, also describes the ark as pyramid-shaped, using a Greek verb that also has a similar meaning to 'gathered'.
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As did the mother's breast. :)
Yeah, it's pretty bad. It reminds me of some slipshod genealogists I've known or met on the web.
The Primeval Mound had literally nothing to do with the mother's breast. The Goddess Nut's breasts were a big deal, and were found in the sky, go figure.
Been there a dozen times or more. Any water results in damage, and annual flooding for eons has done wide ranging damage.
Thanks, but I’ll go with the geologist.
Yeah, no worries, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Holiday Inn Express? Isn’t that how the pandemic started?!? Oh, sorry, it’s just that no one had mentioned the virus in this topic, that I’d noticed. :^)
Shush. . . .
I was wondering if the 12 thousand year age North American bolide strike(s) could have caused excessive rain erosion in Egypt. Also, while we are at it whether that could have shut down the civilization that created the great irrigation works near the Okavango Delta.
The Curious Case of Noah’s … Box?
By Shelley Wachsmann
Biblical Archaeology Review 47:2, Summer 2021
https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/47/2/6
Many early Christian and Jewish representations of Noah’s ark depict it as a box on legs. Learn how early translations of the biblical text may have led to the confusion.
Was Noah’s Ark a Sewn Boat?
By Ralph K. Pedersen
Biblical Archaeology Review 31:3, May/June 2005
https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/31/3/4
Mammatus clouds...
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