[metmom]

So the Israelites built houses 4 meters high in those says?

That’s TWELVE feet plus some.

Who in their right mind would waste their time to build a house THAT tall with that much wasted space when your every day life is more centered around trying to eke out enough of a living to survive?

And typical fall back position to try to save face.. *Catholics are not required to believe it*.

SO WHAT??????

Apparently enough of them are gullible enough to do so. And Catholicism has certainly not discouraged believing in this fantasy.

[Mrs. Don-o]

What? You wonder about 4 m (12 -13 feet) high? Please. Such houses commonly had a lower floor and a loft. The loft was the sleeping space in the winter when the heat would rise there, while the roof was the sleeping space in the summer, when it was cooler.

Do a little research before you declare something ridiculous. The first level was ordinarily a work-area: the cook-fire, the shop. If you were poor, you had to have some provision for severe weather, so your few little goats or donkeys or chickens--- your livestock ---could be sheltered on the lower level, while you and your children slept above in the loft.

This is not just some ancient speculation. My great-greats had that arrangement on their little farm in Rheinpfalz, in the 1800's, before Bismarck.