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050	0	4	_aBS658.W748.B446 2002
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100	1		_aWilson, Ian, _d1941-, _e1
245	1	0	_aBefore the flood : _bthe biblical flood as a real event and how it changed the course of civilization / _cIan Wilson. _hPR
246	3	0	_aBiblical flood as a real event and how it changed the course of civilization
250			_afirst U.S. edition.
260			_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c(c)2002.
300			_axv, 336 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published: London : Orion, 2001.
504			_a1 (pages 303-309) and index.
520	0		_aThe great Biblical flood described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened in the year 2348 B.C., calculating what was then taken as the age of the earth and working backward through the entire series of Biblical "begats." Proof of the flood, which is an element of so many creation myths, began in earnest when archaeology started connecting physical evidence with Biblical story. As historian Ian Wilson reveals in this new book, evidence of a catastrophic event has been building steadily, culminating in the work of William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Several years ago Ryan and Pitman had posited that around 5600 BC there had been an inundation in the Black Sea of such proportions that it turned the freshwater lake into a saltwater lake by connecting it to the Mediterranean. Were that true, they estimated that there would be signs of civilization 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea. In September 2000, using his famous underwater equipment, Robert Ballard explored parts of the Black Sea near the Turkish shore and found the remains of wood houses. There had been a flood that destroyed everything around it for hundreds of miles, killing tens of thousands of people. Exploring all the archeological evidence, Wilson explains how the Black Sea flood and the Biblical flood have to be connected. In particular, Wilson argues that the center of the civilized world was further to the West than previously thought-not in Egypt or Mesopotamia but in what is today Northern Turkey. The earliest, antediluvian civilizations may have migrated east into those places we have come to call the cradles of civilization, forced by the Black Sea flood to create new settlements.
505	0	0	_aWhat's in a date? -- _tWhen the ice melted -- _tNoah family of flood stories -- _tModern-day flood myths -- _tBlack Sea 'burst-through' -- _tAmazing finds -- _tVerdant landscapes -- _tFirst geneticists -- _tFirst accountancy -- _tStone age metropolis -- _tDouble catastrophe -- _tWhither the diaspora? -- _tWho had the ships? -- _tWho stayed at home? -- _tAfrican interlude -- _tEmpire of the goddess -- _tWhen patriarch met matriarch -- _tAtlantis: Fact or fiction? -- _tLingering memory -- _tContinuing quest -- _tNotes and references -- _tBibliography -- _tAppendix: Some key documents.
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630	0	0	_aBible. _pGenesis _xAntiquities.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol050/2003535475.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2003535475.html
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell