RE: Sodom found?
September 25, 2021 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2021 at 12:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Dracula was about filthy eastern european immigrants stealing all the good victorian women with their new wealth and strange sexual practices.
I point this out to explain how a story about a flood might be based on some actual thing..but that thing need not be an actual flood (and certainly wasn't, in the case of the deluge). That story was borrowed to a significant extent..not only was there no global flood there was no flood even remotely close to such a thing in the region, and the story in the ot wasn't written by the inhabitants of that region at any rate. It's the assertion of deed and title, plastered in many ways all over the ot. Not just to all the land, but all of the animals in the land. Jahwist stuff.
I point this out to explain how a story about a flood might be based on some actual thing..but that thing need not be an actual flood (and certainly wasn't, in the case of the deluge). That story was borrowed to a significant extent..not only was there no global flood there was no flood even remotely close to such a thing in the region, and the story in the ot wasn't written by the inhabitants of that region at any rate. It's the assertion of deed and title, plastered in many ways all over the ot. Not just to all the land, but all of the animals in the land. Jahwist stuff.
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