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"To say Jews never had boats is ridiculous, now Phoenicians might have been master of the seas, but it is a stretch to think others had no ships."

If Noah lived around the Black Sea, it would seem to me that boat/ship building would be commom knowledge.

It also doesn't follow that because there was ancient Hebrew writing over here (granted for the sake of argument) the ancient Hebrews must have been a shipfaring people like the Phoenicians. Nor does it follow that because the ancient Hebrews were not a shipfaring people like the Phoenicians the ancient Hebrews (or someone who knew ancient Hebrew) could not have come over here, therefore the writing must be fake. Just because there were a lot of Chinese over here working on the railroad doesn't mean that the Chinese (in recent centuries) were a great shipfaring people. They simply got a ride over with people who were.

There was a LOT of shipping going on back in these ancient times both inside and outside the Mediterranean. There was a highly diversified economy. People from everywhere were going everywhere else. Folks from the Tigris/Euphrates regularly came over to the Mediterranean long before there was an Israel. Rental agreements for carts in that region had riders forbidding people to take the carts over to the Mediterranean. There were periods of global warming in the millennia BC that facilitated as much growth of population, trade, and culture as happened at least a couple of major times in the millennia AD.