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Title: Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History by Walter Pitman, Anastasia Sotiropoulos, William B. F. Ryan ISBN: 0-684-85920-3 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (58 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Appears as if a flood happened
Comment: It appears as if a flood of the Black Sea region happened. Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic, recently found evidence of habitation 300? feet under the Black Sea.
This book provides the interesting story of the theory that a former lake under the Black Sea was flooded by the Mediterranean Sea. This flood could have provide the basis for the flood mythology in many cultures including the Deluge in the Bible.
While likely, the Deluge will be difficult or impossible to prove without a doubt. I believe this book is best used from a scientific standpoint and not as proof for a religion. Yet, many parts of the Bible appear to be supported by recent archaeology.
The section of the book that describes a diaspora of the peoples that lived on the shore of the former lake is more difficult to prove. I read this book in conjunction with the Mummies of Urumchi by E. J. W. Barber, Elizabeth Wayland Barber. I found them complementary on the subject of the Indo- European language group in Western China. To ever prove something such as this diaspora requires the combination of linguistics with archaeology among many other disciplines. While the authors are not experts in those fields, I applaud them for attempting this study. Science more and more requires a consilience of disciplines. I recommend this book as a thought provoking book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating explanation for ancient legends
Comment: The story of Noah's flood was one of my favorite biblical epics. This work is almost equally compelling. Utterly convincing in it's presentation of the evidence - the book demonstrates that the Black Sea was once a fresh water lake but was inundated by rising levels of salt water from the Mediterranean Sea. This monumental assault by Mother Nature on the indigenous residents of the lakeside apparently made somewhat of an impression.
A grand mix of history and science that is highly worth your time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good research but faulty conclusion
Comment: Ryan and Pitman do a terrific job of developing and presenting the evidence for the flood of the Black Sea region about 7000-7500 years ago. However, it's a stretch for them to extrapolate evidence for the flood of the Black Sea into the Great Flood. Evidence for the latter as a world wide event reaches far beyond the shores of the Black Sea.
As the 'Ice Age' ended, during several thousand years the ocean level rose 400-600 feet. Recent submarine archaeological finds off the coast of India and in the Caribbean indicate that the Black Sea was not the only vicinity whose population became displaced. There are in excess of 200 megalithic sites under the Mediterranean, and roads leading away from sites on Malta go straight under the sea. Other undersea sites include those off the coast of Denmark and Germany. Like the Black Sea, the Baltic was also once a fresh water lake, and likely flooded in much the same way and at the same time.
To be sure, refugees from the Black Sea region resettled in what is now Turkey, as well as in every other direction from its former shores. From what is now Turkey, elements of that culture migrated southeastward into Mesopotamia to found the civilization of Sumer. The archaeological record demonstrates that. In Ancient times, Phrygia (north central Anatolia, now Turkey) vied with Egypt for the distinction of being the oldest civilization, and Phrygia eventually won the argument (on flimsy grounds). Geographic evidence embedded in the Bible's Garden of Eden story points to the Zagros Mountains in the same region for its origin.
As for the Great Flood, its likelier cause was a comet or asteroid impact about 11,200 years ago. The physical evidence all over the planet suggests that. If we look at ice core samples from Greenland and Antarctica, for example, the Younger Dryas demonstrates a warming spike at that point in time, then a re-freeze from the nuclear winter wrought by the impact event and then gradual warming and melting over several thousand years to produce the rising sea levels that flooded coastlines worldwide, including that of the Black Sea.
(A lot more evidence points to 11,200 years ago as well. It also coincides with a mass extinction, including more than half of the large mammal species in North America, for instance. DNA research shows a genetic bottleneck at this point among the human species, indicative of a vast temporary diminishment of the human population worldwide. There are a dearth of archaeological human occupation sites around the world at this point and for several hundred years following. Geophysical evidence in North America, India and Egypt demonstrates sand superheated into glass in a fashion normally unknown in nature. A large crater 600 mi. x 750 mi. lies at the bottom of the western North Atlantic, the remnant of the primary impact site(s). The Carolina Bays comprise over half a million smaller crater remains scattered all over North America, in a pattern from Alaska to the southeast U.S., with greatest concentration in the latter region. Erosion analysis dates them to that point in time as well.)
Read the book. It contains a lot of valuable information. Bear in mind, though, that it is just one part of a much bigger story.
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Title:National Geographic - Quest for Noah's Flood ASIN: B00005O4WE Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.95 |
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Title: Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought by Norman Cohn ISBN: 0300076487 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan ISBN: 0465022723 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 24 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean by Willard. Bascom ISBN: 0385089821 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: January, 1976 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization by DAVID KEYS ISBN: 0345408764 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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