(March 22, 2015 at 2:35 pm)Norman Humann Wrote: Drich, and why the fuck would it matter? What does the unit of measurement have to do with the accuracy of the story?
Is about perception. Rather what the jew who penned this story perceives to be a mountain or a "tall hill."
In the hebrew the word in the story (gen7) is "har" it literally means high hills. Sometimes it is translated mountain.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexi...ongs=H2022
Harar is the word for mountain sometimes translated high hill.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexi...ongs=H2042
Why for the uncertainty? Because 5000 years ago they did not classify mountains as we do now. It was in the eye and words of the one telling the story.
Either way har was the lessor of har and harar. Just like hill is the lessor forum of mountain in the English.