Noah's Ark 'Was a Massive Double-Decker Coracle'

International Business Times ^ | 15 Dec 2013 | Fiona Keating

[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.

[NCjim]

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=WL7YYLNX

[par4]

The could have been carried by African swallows

But African swallows are non-migratory, sorry

[BubbaBasher]

If the flood was a fable then why is there fossilized evidence of sea life all along the top of the Himalayas, including at the Mt. Everest?

Because mountains are created when two plates colide and push the sea floor upward. We also know that there used to be many inland seas. This explains your questions but in no way debunks Noah or tries to refute the bible. Accept simple scientifc truths when they are clear.

[Scoutmaster]

Not European swallows, mind you. Only a pair of African swallows. On a strand of creeper. Held under the dorsal guiding feather.

[American Constitutionalist]

[American Constitutionalist]

And we get our oil from all the dead sea creatures and plants that were buried under all that water.
Or was it from dinos ?

[GeronL]

I really don’t think it came from dino’s. I have a hard time believing that oil came from all the dead plants and creatures millions of years ago. There was always much more abundant plant life than animal life.

[ViLaLuz]

The Noah’s ark “myth”?

[American Constitutionalist]

" literally "

Thems are called " Fundamentalist "

Some aspects and interpretations of some places of the bible could be taken literally when it is in it's proper context and other times as Jesus Christ sometimes would speak in parables taken as in a allegory.
The bible translates or rather the bible interprets the bible by it's self.
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is a " revelation " of Jesus Christ with many images, symbolic meanings, types, so on and so on.
When Jesus said about being it's so hard to get a camel through a eye of a needle ? does he mean that we should take a camel and try that ? impossible... it was symbolic.

[MrB]

However, you put a needle through a camel, and you’re asking for trouble.

[American Constitutionalist]

yeah he might bite you and all that spit.

[Kartographer]

Don’t even get me started on the cost over runs!!! ;-)

[Fuzz]

“Some aspects and interpretations of some places of the bible could be taken literally when it is in it’s proper context and other times as Jesus Christ sometimes would speak in parables taken as in a allegory.”

I get that. I’m attempting to clarify which is the flood, Noah’s tale, tower of Babel etc are. Are they allegories or historical accounts of what actually happened.

“The bible translates or rather the bible interprets the bible by it’s self.”

That’s convenient, and yet makes no sense.

No one ever tried to tell me the camel through the eye of the needle story was about a real miraculous camel who could squeeze through tight spaces.

[GeronL]

lol

[sopwith]

African swallows?

[camle]

,i."However, you put a needle through a camel, and you’re asking for trouble."

HEY!!!watch it with that!!! ;-)

[American Constitutionalist]

" No one ever tried to tell me the camel through the eye of the needle story was about a real miraculous camel who could squeeze through tight spaces. "

That's why it is not something to be taken literally.
Jesus was trying to make a point with a mental picture of how it's more difficult for a rich man to make it to heaven because his heart is on his wealth than on God then it is for a camel to be squeezed through the eye of a needle.
He was making contrasts of 2 different things.

[Fuzz]

Yeah, it’s obvious this is going nowhere. I don’t appear to be communicating well enough to be understood.

[American Constitutionalist]

Oh your commincating very well.

About the bible interpreting the bible it's self ?
Study up on it, you'll see.
Perhaps this is not going anywhere because I am not following a certain preconceived agenda.

[Fuzz]

“Perhaps this is not going anywhere because I am not following a certain preconceived agenda.”

I’m sure that’s it.