RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 11, 2012 at 11:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2012 at 11:34 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 11, 2012 at 11:21 pm)Polaris Wrote: The number 40 was a popular estimate number used in Canaanite cultures (not just limited to the Israelites). To us, it would be like a cross between the numbers 7 and 10.
Also for Westerners, a generation is seen how long it takes for one generation to beget the next. For them, it was how long the average people were on the earth...in early times in the Bible, the generations were considerably longer.
I realise that, I was just curious as to how you arrived at the number forty. Your calculation appeared to me to be reverse-engineered, in the sense of taking the number from the bible passage and shoe-horning the twelve generations into it to arrive at forty, but if the number was indeed a popular estimate number at the time I can accept that. However, just as with the notion that biblical generations were longer than today's, "citation needed", as a wise man once said.
I have no idea what your second sentence means.
(September 11, 2012 at 11:26 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Convenience Stimbo. It makes his math work. Simple facts like the median lifespan during the time was mid 30’s or girls often started pushing out babies shortly after puberty never into the equation.
Yes, that's what I thought. It's like the infamous calculation that starts off with six people and ends up four thousand years later with six 'billion'. Voilà - bible proved. What they don't tell you is they started off with the six 'billion', then retrofitted the other numbers in to make it fit.
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