HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
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Historical Accounts of Noah's Ark and the Worldwide Flood
1. The Gilgamesh Epic (2500 B.C.) - On Tablet 11 of this unprecedented historical find in 1853 in the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, Gilgamesh - King of Uruk, writes of the actual flood account in great detail. On Tablet 10, he states that he is on a quest for the secret of eternal life through one of his ancestors whom he calls Ut-napistim, who was one of those present on the ark during the Flood. This ancestor would most assuredly have been Noah's son Ham.
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http://www.noahs-ark.tv/noahs-ark-flood-creation-stories-myths-epic-of-gilgamesh-neo-babylonian-akkadian-cuneiform-ut-napistim-tablet11-1150bc.htm
for further insight.
2. In Book I, Chapter 3, Paragraph 6 of Antiquities of the Jews the Jewish-Roman Historian Flavius Josephus quotes four historians of different nationalities during two different eras regarding the historical account of the flood and its relationship to the then-known Scriptures (A.D. 110). The named historians and their associated nationalities are as follows:
a) Berosus of Babylon (280 B.C.)
b) Mnaseas of Greece (250 B.C.)
c) Hieronymus of Egypt (30 B.C)
d) Nicolaus of Damascus (30 B.C)
The above cited quote reads as follows:
"Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas, and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote."
...Please visit:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2848/2848-h/2848-h.htm#link2HCH0003
for further insight.
3. The modern Chinese symbol for a 'large boat' or 'ship' is comprised of the individual characters for '8' + 'person' + 'boat'. In Genesis 7:7 we read that Noah went aboard the Ark with his wife and his sons (Shem, Ham, & Japheth) and his sons' wives (each had a wife) for a total of eight persons aboard the Ark at the time of the Flood.
...Please visit:
http://www.noahs-ark.tv/chinese/chinese-language-evidences-of-noahs-ark-and-genesis-1-11.htm
for further insight.
1. The Gilgamesh Epic (2500 B.C.) - On Tablet 11 of this unprecedented historical find in 1853 in the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, Gilgamesh - King of Uruk, writes of the actual flood account in great detail. On Tablet 10, he states that he is on a quest for the secret of eternal life through one of his ancestors whom he calls Ut-napistim, who was one of those present on the ark during the Flood. This ancestor would most assuredly have been Noah's son Ham.
...Please visit:
http://www.noahs-ark.tv/noahs-ark-flood-creation-stories-myths-epic-of-gilgamesh-neo-babylonian-akkadian-cuneiform-ut-napistim-tablet11-1150bc.htm
for further insight.
2. In Book I, Chapter 3, Paragraph 6 of Antiquities of the Jews the Jewish-Roman Historian Flavius Josephus quotes four historians of different nationalities during two different eras regarding the historical account of the flood and its relationship to the then-known Scriptures (A.D. 110). The named historians and their associated nationalities are as follows:
a) Berosus of Babylon (280 B.C.)
b) Mnaseas of Greece (250 B.C.)
c) Hieronymus of Egypt (30 B.C)
d) Nicolaus of Damascus (30 B.C)
The above cited quote reads as follows:
"Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas, and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote."
...Please visit:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2848/2848-h/2848-h.htm#link2HCH0003
for further insight.
3. The modern Chinese symbol for a 'large boat' or 'ship' is comprised of the individual characters for '8' + 'person' + 'boat'. In Genesis 7:7 we read that Noah went aboard the Ark with his wife and his sons (Shem, Ham, & Japheth) and his sons' wives (each had a wife) for a total of eight persons aboard the Ark at the time of the Flood.
...Please visit:
http://www.noahs-ark.tv/chinese/chinese-language-evidences-of-noahs-ark-and-genesis-1-11.htm
for further insight.
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