Monday, April 2, 2018

Was Irving Finkel’s ‘Ark’ the Prototype?


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Damien F. Mackey

 

 

 

 

“… the “Ark tablet” that Finkel and the British Museum finally got hold of four years ago … contains 600 cuneiform characters and is dated between 1900 and 1700 BC, which makes it roughly a millennium older than the book of Genesis”.

 

Jerry A. Coyne

 

 

 

 

That’s a bold statement by Coyne!

 

He may look a bit like Noah, this Irving Finkel, who has translated an early Babylonian tablet about a flood and a corresponding boat-like vessel. Though Jerry A. Coyne, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago and author of Why Evolution is True, has described Finkel as bearing “a remarkable resemblance to an aged Darwin with more hair”.

 

Whatever about all that, firstly let us get a bit of proper perspective about dates and eras.

 

Even if Assyriologist Finkel’s cuneiform tablet were written as early as 1900 or 1700 BC,

 

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it would still fall well short in age of the Genesis narrative accounts of the Flood, because the

 

Genesis Flood Narrative [Was] An Eyewitness Account

 


 

This part of Genesis was the product, first of Noah, and then, afterwards, of his three sons:

 

Toledôt of Genesis. Part One (a): Colophon Key to the Structure of Genesis

 


 

Secondly, we have found that Babylonian era conventionally dated to 1900-1700 BC, the time of the great Hammurabic (Old Babylonian) dynasty, needs to be lowered by approximately a millennium. For, in actuality:

 


 


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