RE: Why build an Ark?
March 21, 2023 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2023 at 12:01 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The urals and the hindu kush were both within the boundary of bronze age trade network centered around the middle east that dates to at least 2000 years bc. so the existence of numerous tall mountains and high plateau near or just beyond the known world would likely have been as well known amongst the educated or well traveled circles as well as the fact the earth was round had been known before columbus.
In the meantime, most yokels which are the bible’s main targets think the making and breaking of the whole world will revolve somewhere between mt Ararat and valley of megiddo and can’t relate at all to anything beyond babylon and memphis.
So i think it does not require insight or omniscience for the writer of bible to perceive the need to simultaneously overawe the yokels and not be too specific so as to make enemies of the relatively more knowledgeable.
In the meantime, most yokels which are the bible’s main targets think the making and breaking of the whole world will revolve somewhere between mt Ararat and valley of megiddo and can’t relate at all to anything beyond babylon and memphis.
So i think it does not require insight or omniscience for the writer of bible to perceive the need to simultaneously overawe the yokels and not be too specific so as to make enemies of the relatively more knowledgeable.
