RE: Sodom found?
September 25, 2021 at 2:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2021 at 2:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 25, 2021 at 1:22 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 25, 2021 at 12:56 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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.
Of course it is. it makes no effort to explain each steps in its subsequent evolution, hybridization, inbreeding, out breeding and mutation along the line of decent to the OT fable. It attempt to detect genetic markers in the OT fable, so to speak, that may point to some discernible factual occurrences during that long path of descent, such as association with very broadly similar flood myths shared with several earlier cultures in the near East, and a yet earlier actual geological event which would have left at least impressions style memories of a dooms day flood across much of that region.
As to the reason why people tell the story in OT, it should be pointed out that until modern times, people across the world mostly did not share the modern concept of telling storie about things outside their daily lives for the purposes of broadening horizon oh factual knowledge. Stories are told mainly as malleable props to support a rethorical agenda.
Well, rather than make hay over floods..I'll point out that the current hope of the current paper is not an example of anything like that - but the idea that an airburst hit the town of sodom. No evolution of anything. That's actually the only reference in the paper to the biblical tale. It even acknowledges that even if their findings are true (which, they may not be) that still would not establish that this is the town of sodom - that the story in magic book is about this.
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