RE: Did the flood really occur?
September 29, 2011 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2011 at 2:35 pm by Minimalist.)
Ugarit was destroyed c 1200 BC which is the date Finkelstein assigns for the emergence of proto-Israelites in the Judaen Hill Country..some distance away.
When it first came out that texts had been found the bible thumpers went wild and there is probably lots of preposterous shit still floating around about how they "proved" the bible and such.
It is similar to this situation with the Ebla tablets.
See here.
http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Ur_and_Jerusale.../Dec_1983.
and even more importantly:
Salty, do you understand that you sound like a blithering idiot when you write stuff like that?
If you want to believe in nonsense, be my guest. It's no skin off my nose. But don't expect to be taken seriously.
When it first came out that texts had been found the bible thumpers went wild and there is probably lots of preposterous shit still floating around about how they "proved" the bible and such.
It is similar to this situation with the Ebla tablets.
See here.
http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Ur_and_Jerusale.../Dec_1983.
Quote:According to Genesis 11:28–31, Abraham was born in the city of Ur. Contrary to earlier reports, the name Ur does not appear in the mid-third millennium cuneiform tablets uncovered at the ancient city of Ebla, now in Syria. That is the latest word from Ebla’s Italian team of archaeologists and epigraphers, who toured the United States last spring. This revision is the most recent of a long series concerning the contents of the tablets, especially as they relate to the Bible.1
The name Jerusalem is another withdrawn claim. There is no reference to Jerusalem in the Ebla tablets, the Italians say, nor is there any mention of Megiddo, Lachish, Shechem or the Biblical Cities of the Plain.
and even more importantly:
Quote:What has happened with the Ebla tablets is, unfortunately, exactly what happened with several other major textual discoveries of this century, such as the Ugaritic texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Linear B tablets in Mycenaean Greek. In each case there was a period of wild enthusiasm with everyone wanting to get into the act. Claim and counterclaim followed one bizarre reconstruction after another. One classical scholar, convinced that the ancient Greeks could write nothing but great poetry, thought he had discovered the poetic metrical system for the poetry of the Linear B tablets—no mean achievement when one realizes that these tablets are administrative texts connected with the wool industry, the flax industry, coppersmithing and the manufacture of perfumes and unguents.
The point is that there seems to be a period of fantasy, almost a silly season, through which we must pass following every great textual or epigraphical discovery. Scholars share the vanities and insecurities common to all humanity. When asked for their opinion by a reporter from the New York Times, Time magazine or BAR, few can resist. The fact that they know nothing about the subject has never hindered most scholars from contributing to the general confusion.
Quote:My faith is confirmed in the ways the Lord has shown himself in my life time and again, and my faith endures, not on facts that disprove events took place in the past, but facts that prove that I am doing God's will.
Salty, do you understand that you sound like a blithering idiot when you write stuff like that?
If you want to believe in nonsense, be my guest. It's no skin off my nose. But don't expect to be taken seriously.
