"Noah's" Flood....Millennial Week....Patriarch Ages....Bible and History Reconciled

How the Biblical Flood Story can be defended if it coincides with End of last Ice Age

Scientists can

Map from "History and Life" Scott, Foresman 2d ed. pg. 1984 pg. 8

prove without a doubt that there were 3

major ICE AGES prior to 11,000 yrs ago...

"Noah's Flood"

occurred at the END of the last great ICE AGE, which

allows the destruction caused by this flood to be mixed

with and indistinguishable from that caused by melting

and sliding ice!

And the Christians trying to defend the concept of a

universal disaster [since the Bible describes such a

disaster] have in modern times run into the data that

does support a local "Flood" in Mesopotamia about

the time they suppose the Bible describes "Noah's"

flood, large enough to inundate many cities, but not

large enough to support even the IDEA that the

entire earth's population was endangered!

Once we understand that Biblical writers,

and the Essene Scripture "editors" and copyists at their

"Scriptorium" at Qumran were more interested in

promoting a "Prophetic Scheme" based on the earth

being only about 4000 years old in their "Age", we can

move on to justify what the Bible teaches in other areas,

without wasting energy on "proving" the unprovable!

One need look no further than the Bible ITSELF to show that

NUMBERS were changed in the BIBLE to promote the

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Essene MILLENNIAL WEEK, in which 3 1/2 Zodiacal AGES

are equal to 7000 years.

Some people know that the "Bible" of Jesus's

time was the "Septuigint"!

Let's now compare some ages at which pre-flood

patriarchs had their first-born sons, in the

Septuigint

with what became their ages at which the

very same first-born sons were born

in the post 70 AD

Hebrew Scriptures.

It was these post 70 AD Scriptures, with their LESSER ages,

that were used to make the King James BIBLE

that Bishop Ussher used to determine the AGE of the Earth!

This is best shown with a TABLE.

Name n Septuigint   Age 1st son born  Name in KJV  Age 1st son born
 Adam  230 years [700]  Adam  130 years [800]
 Seth  205 years [707] Seth  105 years [807]
 Enos  190 years [715]  Enos   .90 years [815]
 Cainan  170 years [740] Cainan   .70 years [840]
 Maleleel  165 years [730]  Mahalaleel   .65 years [830]
 Jared  162 years [800] Jared  162 years [800]
 Enoch..........7  165 years [200] Enoch.....365   .65 years [300]
 Methusala  167 years [802]  Methusaleh  187 years [782]
 Lamech .....753  188 years [565]  Lamech...777  182 years [595]
 Noe............10  500 years  Noah 500 years

Adam's creation to Flood=2142--Adam's creation to Flood=1556 years

586 years difference between the 2 Bibles!

Using the KJV the earth is 6,003 years old,

but using Septuigint figures it is 6,589 years old!

Those understandibly suspicious of the "book-keeping" of these priestly

scribes will note that ENOCH, a major hero of the Essenes, lived exactly

365 years, a year for every day of the Essene calendar

[which was 5 days longer than the Hebrew calendar],

and that Lamech's age at death seems to have been "adjusted"

from 753 years to 777 years [a more magical number].

Also "suspicious" is that a number of the patriarchs' ages after

bearing their heir is changed so that their total age is similar

in both records!

The point is, it would be foolish to invest much effort in "defending" these Biblical

dates other than for PROPHETIC PURPOSES, and more foolish yet to try to

date a world-wide catastrophe such as the UNIVERSAL FLOOD on such dates!

Modern Jewish Scholars do not try to defend these ages

of the Patriarchs as being genuine, and see the earth as

being as old as the Scientists [many of them Jewish] say

it is........The following dates are taken from Simon and

Schuster's "The Timetables of Jewish History" 1993

by Judah Gribetz, Edward L. Greenstein, and Regina Stern.....

 General History

 Date
  Jewish History

 Glaciers of the ICE Age

have melted and receded.

Dwellers of what is now

northern Iraq [near Mt.

Ararat R.H] begin to

domesticate sheep.

 -9000

 Herding will be the

occupation ascribed by

the Bible to the earliest

Hebrews and to Abel,

son of Adam and Eve.

 

 -8000

Farming culture establishes

a permanent settlement,

fortified in stone, at a site

that will be called Jericho..

Elsewhere in the land of

Israel, people live in

caves and forage, while at

other sites herding of

animals has begun.

 Large Neolithic settle-

ments appear in Anatolia,

[Turkey, region of Mt.

Ararat..R.H.], Asia

Minor, some chara-

cterized by pottery.

....In Iran,[also near

Mt. Ararat R.H] farmers

begin to cultivate wheat

and barley...Agriculture

will not spread to Europe

or China for another

3000 years!

 -7000

 Farming is said to be the

occupation of Cain, son

of Adam and Eve (Gen.

4:2) Neolithic Jericho

shows highly developed

civilization, marked by

animal domestication,

cereal cultivation, tool-

making, and foreign trade.

 Village culture, marked

by painted pottery and

craftsmaking, character-

izes Upper Mesopotamia.

...Villages familiar with

pottery emerge in Syria

and along the Mediterr-

anean coast.

 -6000

 [Note that it is now after

all this progress, still 2000

years before Adam and

Eve (and one supposes

the World) will be created,

according to Ussher's

chronology!] R. Holt

 In Egypt the earliest-

known village culture

appears in the Fayyum

area of the Nile Delta.

 -4300

 [Still 300 years to go be-

fore Adam and Eve are

created at the end of "6

days" of CREATION!]

.....Comment by R. Holt

 The custom of burying

the dead together with

their possessions,

enabling them to live in

the next world, is already

in evidence in Egypt.

 -4000

 [The world has now

been created!] R.H.

 Northern Mesopotamia

is settled by the Subarians

an apparently central

Asian people who may

have given the idea of

writing to the Sumerians

who will supersede them.

 -3500

 Throughout the land of

Israel, village culture is

evident, with notable

concentrations in the

Negev and the Jordan

Valley....Copper imple-

ments begin to be manu-

factured in the next few

centuries.

 The Sumerians (possibly

Shinar in Genesis 11:2),

a people of uncertain

origins who settled

southern Mesopotamia

sometime before 4000

BCE, have by now

built cities and irrigation

canals...They invent or

develop a system of

writing, which will be

further developed and

stylized as cuneiform...

They work in bronze

and build cities...Their

tradition ascribes the first

fruits of civilization to the

divine sage Uanna-

Adapa, whose name may

be reflected in the Greek

Oannes and the Bible's

Adam.

 -3100

 The early Bronze Age

that runs the course of

several centuries in Pales-

tine is characterized by

diverse painted pottery...

Fortified cities begin to

emerge, often built on a

rocky hill....So do the

cultic "high places" that

will later incense Israel's

prophets...Vines, for

which Israel will later be

renowned, are imported...

Inhabitants speak an early

form of western Semetic,

from which Hebrew

(Canaanite) will stem.

 Upper and Lower Egypt

are consolidated by

Narmer (Menes, tradit-

ional founder of the 1st

Dynasty?) and trade

begins with Phoenicia and

beyond...Although not

as advanced in art and

technology as

Mesopotamia, Egypt

devises hieroglyptic

writing...The IndusValley

begins to evolve a highly

centralized civilization.

-3000 

 In Hebrew, Egypt will

still be known as the

"Two Lands"

(Mitsrayim).

 Signs of a local flood are

evident in the southern

Mesopotamian city of

Shuruppak, home of the

Sumerian and Babylonian

flood hero, parallel to the

Biblical Noah...The

Sumerians associate the

flood with a contempor-

ary "deluge" of western

Semites in the region...

 -2900

 Note the jesting way in

which the Jewish authors

of "The Timetables of

Jewish History" deal

with the supposed "flood"

of 2900 BCE...The flood

is a "flood" of non-Sumer-

ian immigrants!

 The Sumerian city of

Uruk builds a six-mile-

long protective wall

around itself...The famed

18-foot-thick wall will be

celebrated in the Epic of

Gilgamesh, the legend-

ary king of Uruk.

....Egyptians begin paint-

ing narrative scenes in

their tombs.

 -2700
  

 Egypt conquers its south-

ern neighbor, Nubia..At

the same time it is building

settlements in the Nile

Delta...Food staples are

barley and beer..Pottery

develops, giving rise to

the myth that the god

Khnum created humans

on a potter's wheel.

....The 4th Dynasty of

Egypt constructs pyra-

mids for entombing its

royalty, who are regarded

as gods....Believing that a

person exists so long as

one's body is preserved,

Egyptians bury their dead

in dry sand and mummify

them.

 -2600

Genesis 2 will describe

Creation as "molding", a

potter's activity.

 ..The balm that is brought

down to Egypt in the

biblical story of Joseph is

surely meant for mummif-

ication.

....According to Genesis,

both Joseph and his father

Jacob will be embalmed

in Egypt.

Mitsrayim

Note that in the 8,000 plus years prior to the building

of tombs and pyramids and firm belief in gods and

an after-life in Misrayim [Egypt] the only "flood"

of any importance seems to be in the region where

the Sumerian "Noah" lives...about 2900 BCE...

..........If we accept that this is "the flood" of Genesis,

it causes A LOT of problems! Theologically that is!

#1...It further shortens the "Age" of the earth, if we alter the ages of the

.......Patriarch's downward to adjust for the 2900 BCE date. Instead of

.........2142 years from Adam's "creation" to the FLOOD [Septuigint], or 1556 years

.........from Adam's "creation" to the FLOOD [KJV & Tanakh], we have 4004-2900=

.........1104 years from creation to the FLOOD...and the world is only 6000-452=

5548 years old..

..........and we need to put off celebrating the year 2000 for another 452 years!

#2...A "local flood" in Shuruppak, with waters that receded after a

.......mere 7 days, or even several weeks or a month, could hardly

.......justify the words of Genesis ch.6 "6.."And it repented the Lord

.......that he had made man on the earth...7...I will destroy man...from

.......the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,

.......and the fowls of the air...11..the earth also was corrupt before

.......God, and the earth was filled with violence...13 "And God said

.......unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;...and, behold,

.......I will destroy them with the earth."

.........No matter how BAD a flood was in Shuruppak, or how extensive

.......the damage to local buildings, there is NO AVOIDING that the

.........ENTIRE WORLD is the site of the DISASTER cited in Genesis

.........chapter 6!...And immigration of some western Semites to the area is NOT

..........SUFFICIENT REASON for a WORLD-WIDE disaster!

Only a world-wide disaster of the proportions that

most certainly would have occurred at the end of

the last great ice age, with major global warming,

prolonged disastrous cyclones, major rainstorms

all over the earth, and sea-shores moving inland

at rapid rates, accompanied by periodic tidal waves

as large chunks of ice crashed into the oceans all

around the world, and increased volcanic activity,

.....fit the picture in Genesis...

The only "problem" is the DATING, which I believe

we have adequately dealt with!

Good sense decrees that it would have taken many

thousands of years for conditions on earth to even

approach what they had been before the shorelines

and climate had changed so radically....As the snow

and ice built up again, over thousands of years,

Southern Iraq rose once again out of the Persian

Gulf, to be rebuilt again by distant descendents of

the original "Noah" and no doubt did suffer a minor

inundation about 2900 BCE, but not bad enough to

prevent Uruk [nearby] from building its famous wall

within 200 years of this event!

.....And soon thereafter MOST or ALL of the pre-

.....11,000 BCE "Cities of the Gods" were rebuilt,

.....hailing back to a time millennia before, when

.....according to Genesis 6:1-4: ".......it came to

......pass, when men began to multiply on the face

......of the earth, and daughters were born unto

......them, that the sons of God [Elohim or Anunaki]

......[Tanakh-"divine beings"]saw the daughters of

......men that they were fair [Tanakh-"saw how

......beautiful the daughters of men were"]; and they

......took them wives of all which they chose...And

......the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive

......with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days

......shall be an hundred and twenty years...There

......were giants in the earth in those days,...

......[Tanakh- It was then, and later too, that the

......Nephilim appeared on earth -- when the divine

......beings cohabited with the daughters of men,

......who bore them offspring. They were the heroes

......of old, the men of renown.] [Sitchin translates

......this last word "shem" with its Sumerian meaning

......people of the Space-Ships.."Heavenly Astronauts"]

A "Heavenly Astronaut" with a laser mining tool headed from Mars to earth!

Detail from Sumerian, Akkadian, or Assyrian Picture Cylinder Seal.

The original "Noah" was one of these divine-human hybrids, a hero,

or "Man of Renown" from an age LONG BEFORE that

"local flood" of Shuruppak of 2900 BCE!

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