RE: Sodom found?
September 25, 2021 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2021 at 1:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Its not a reputable theory for the origin of the story in the ot. That's where these analysis always fall flat. To say...hey, here's a big flood, maybe big floods like this are the reason people tell flood stories? They happen all over the world. Why not? This, acknowledging that none of the details of any flood story fit any known flood anywhere at any time, the black sea fill in being no exception.
Maybe so..but that's not the reason they told the flood story in the ot. There's a ton of good research on this both from the literary angle and supporting archaeology. This, in contrast, to the fruitless search for the real events™ that inspired the bible. There were real events, sure - just not the ones in the establishment myth that contextualized them. To my mind, that's one of the most fascinating things about magic book. The reason that biblical archaeology hobbled along for so long, and is still with us. Our early apprehensions of it's historicity were based not solely (or even meaningfully) on faith in the contents or it;s god - but on corroborating debris and sites really found all over the place. On accurate descriptions of things in those sites, and warfare as we found it later in the dirt. Trouble was, it accurately described a time much later in history.
TLDR version, the reason that people told the deluge story in the ot was not because they remembered some ancient flood of any description- it was because it was useful to the organization of their society in the then-present as constructed.
Maybe so..but that's not the reason they told the flood story in the ot. There's a ton of good research on this both from the literary angle and supporting archaeology. This, in contrast, to the fruitless search for the real events™ that inspired the bible. There were real events, sure - just not the ones in the establishment myth that contextualized them. To my mind, that's one of the most fascinating things about magic book. The reason that biblical archaeology hobbled along for so long, and is still with us. Our early apprehensions of it's historicity were based not solely (or even meaningfully) on faith in the contents or it;s god - but on corroborating debris and sites really found all over the place. On accurate descriptions of things in those sites, and warfare as we found it later in the dirt. Trouble was, it accurately described a time much later in history.
TLDR version, the reason that people told the deluge story in the ot was not because they remembered some ancient flood of any description- it was because it was useful to the organization of their society in the then-present as constructed.
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