rich Wrote:
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> "Eridu Genesis - Date 3d millennium BCE
> Atrahasis - c.1640
> Gilgameš - BCE c.1100
> Bible - BCE c.1000-500
> Berossus - BCE 278
> Greece - BCE c.700 BCE?
> Quran - c.600 CE"
> *******
> Gigamesh is placed around 2700BC.
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>
> Not many schollars are going to put Noah in the
> 1000-500BC timeframe. I have the Biblical flood
> around 1450BC.
>
> Greece - 500 years after the trojan war?
> Deucallion Flood should be around 1450BC. Manetho
> lines this up with the flood of Hatshepsut,
> however I have Deucallion flood later.
Are we discussing the dates of the texts themselves, or the legendary dates of the floods that they describe? The site does specifically state that the reader should not discount the possibility of a local flood in Southern Babylon during the early 3rd millennium having given rise to these accounts.
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