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Could the flood have been exaggerated?

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Larni
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09-20-2010 6:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by frako
09-20-2010 5:20 AM

I think it is safe to say that any costal civilisation would over dramatise the importance of flooding in their region. Considering most people would not travel much they would view where they live as the whole world.
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Larni
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09-21-2010 5:08 AM 		Reply to: Message 10 by frako
09-21-2010 4:33 AM

Re: sure it could be an exageration.
i was hoping for some contra arguments there is really not much to debate if there is no one on the opposite side of the fence
i was hoping for some contra arguments there is really not much to debate if there is no one on the opposite side of the fence
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The evidence killed the contra arguments and took it's stuff.
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Larni
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09-22-2010 12:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 13 by jar
09-21-2010 9:46 PM

Re: sure it could be an exageration.
My guess would be Gilgamesh XI or Atrahasis (both not oral but on tablets).
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Larni
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09-22-2010 12:36 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by jar
09-22-2010 12:16 PM

Re: sure it could be an exageration.
It's interesting that the Atrahasis story includes many of the other features found in Genesis and so very likely played a part in the origins of several of the stories.
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I'm fairly convinced a lot of the bible is culled from previous sources, the fludde being just one of them.
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Not to single out the bible, though: there is good reason to compare Enki with Prometheus, Ninti (Lady Rib) and Eve etc.
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