Before the flood: the biblical flood as a real event and how it changed the course of civilization
by Wilson, Ian
The Black Sea flood and the southern migration, Wilson argues, are the basis for the Genesis tale of Noah. He synthesizes the last 40 years' worth of archeological findings into a lively detective story, showing how various cultures in Europe, Asia and the Middle East still bear the vestigial traces of their Black Sea roots. He confirms his theory by citing the numerous myths of a great devastating flood and its aftermath among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Greeks and others. Wilson does not aim …
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Summary
The Black Sea flood and the southern migration, Wilson argues, are the basis for the Genesis tale of Noah. He synthesizes the last 40 years' worth of archeological findings into a lively detective story, showing how various cultures in Europe, Asia and the Middle East still bear the vestigial traces of their Black Sea roots. He confirms his theory by citing the numerous myths of a great devastating flood and its aftermath among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Greeks and others. Wilson does not aim to prove the literal truth of the Bible story-only that Noah had real-life counterparts who escaped the flood by ship.
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- Publication Date:2004.
- Edition:1st St. Martin's Griffin ed
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- Publisher(s):St. Martin's Griffin
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
Notes
Originally published: London : Orion, 2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 336 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0312319711, 9780312319717, 0312304005, 9780312304003
- oclc:ocm54006664
- LC Classification:BS658
- Dewey Decimal:930.1
Table of Contents
What's in a date? -- When the ice melted -- The Noah family of flood stories -- Modern-day flood myths -- The Black Sea 'burst-through' -- Amazing finds -- Verdant landscapes -- The first geneticists -- The first accountancy -- A Stone Age metropolis -- Double catastrophe -- Whither the diaspora? -- Who had the ships? -- Who stayed at home? -- An African interlude -- Empire of the goddess -- When patriarch met matriarch -- Atlantis : fact or fiction? -- The lingering memory -- The continuing quest.
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