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Bezig met laden... Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization (editie 2004)door Ian Wilson (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. well i thought this book began well, with a description of the various Flood myths the world contains. then it proceeds to locate a very possible actual event that the myths could celebrate. So far, so good. then after a chapter on the Robert Ballard expedition to the Black Sea, and his remarkable findings of rectangular dwellings at the site of a former sea-shore, now 90M beneath the waves, it gets rather more cosmic. And that's when I start re-channelling the me that read a number of works by Emmanuel Velikovsky. The book becomes a survey of possible sites for a superior civilization, with iron-working as a common technology, spread across the Mediterranean basin, up the Danube, and perhaps as far as the Punjab. then it goes into hiatus for 1500 years, reverts to copper-working as its primary technology, and is responsible for the usual Sumerian and Egyptian format for the advance of civilization until now. perhaps the book was written to raise enough furor to get a good deal more submarine exploration of the Black sea, and I hope it does, but it goes into Atlantean studies, and that's very dodgy, as far as I'm concerned. I think i'll go read a stodgier book, "Deep History" in the near furure. This seemed like the exact sort of novel that I would love and maybe that's why I was harder on it than I needed to be. I didn't enjoy the episodic nature of the stories, nor did I find any of the characters in any way sympathetic. Samuel is so petulant and bitter; it makes it hard to care about what's happening to him and to his small New Brunswick town. I'm not, nor have I ever been, a teenage boy, so perhaps this is an accurate portrayal of what teenage boys are like. Even so, it's so unrelentingly peevish that the whole work was soured. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
For centuries in the Near East archaeological evidence has been turning up of a major flood in the area's ancient history. In 1995, two marine biologists put forward evidence that showed that until almost 7500 years ago the Black Sea was a freshwater lake separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a small strip of land where Istanbul now stands. Their theory suggested that around 5600 BC the Mediterranean broke through the land barrier and salt water poured through with a force 200 times that of Niagara Falls inundating the Black Sea and raising its level by over 300 feet. In September 2000 marine archaeologist Robert Ballard discovered the wooden remains of houses 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea 12 miles north of the present-day Turkish coast. Building on this evidence Ian Wilson puts forward the hypothesis that this catastrophic inundation - the biblical Flood - drowned tens of thousands of people and precipitated an exodus of people from Egypt and Mesopotamia, who formed the precursors of these great civilizations. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The author has a clear, elegant writing style that avoids overly-technical jargon and repetitive waffling. Ideas are presented logically and there is a clear differentiation between archaeological evidence, specialist interpretation and author interpretation. There is no religion bashing and no religion preaching in this book. All in all, a very nice archaeological detective story.
NOTE: This edition of the book has the photographs and illustrations printed very darkly, making it hard to determine some of the details. So if purchasing this book, see if you can find another edition or look up the pictures on the internet.
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