RE: Genesis
November 26, 2023 at 1:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2023 at 1:57 am by SeniorCitizen.)
Why is there "numerical data" in the flood story?
The dimensions of the Ark?
"After 17 days of the 2nd month ..."?
When I first read the Bible ... when I came to this ... I thought:
"It's a MAP of a voyage!"
So where did the Ark sail from and go to?
Answer: It went from Heliopolis to Patmos.
2,200 BC or so. A movement of people from Egypt during the chaos that followed the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.
The reference to Ararat suggests they later (generations later?) moved into the Black Sea.
... then, maybe, across into Northern Mesopotamia and then (as "Abraham") back to Egypt.
A round trip over several generations?
Whoever wrote Revelations may have known about this map.
The dimensions of the Ark?
"After 17 days of the 2nd month ..."?
When I first read the Bible ... when I came to this ... I thought:
"It's a MAP of a voyage!"
So where did the Ark sail from and go to?
Answer: It went from Heliopolis to Patmos.
2,200 BC or so. A movement of people from Egypt during the chaos that followed the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.
The reference to Ararat suggests they later (generations later?) moved into the Black Sea.
... then, maybe, across into Northern Mesopotamia and then (as "Abraham") back to Egypt.
A round trip over several generations?
Whoever wrote Revelations may have known about this map.
