Is this then the reality behind the ancient tale of Noah? More to the point, why does it matter?What does the story of the Flood mean to us and why does it so stir the collective imagination?
A MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood and how the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology.
Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley.
" For me, the strength of this book lies not so much in its entertaining characters as in the wonderful details of this old brand-new world.żIn just these details, small and large, Maine convinces us that the world Noah worked so hard to ...
Long known as the classic work on the study of Atlantis, the author puts forth the idea that this was the true place where civilization began.This one book has done more than any other in promoting the idea for the lost continent of ...