Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" Thomas Henry Huxley. Thomas Henry Huxley HOLY BIBLE Hasisadra's Adventure More titles from this publisher Thomas Henry Huxley On the. Front Cover.
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Some thousands of years ago there was a city in Mesopotamia called Surippak.
... Hasisadra's might drive before a 1 See the instructive chapter on Hasisadra's flood in Suess , Das Antlitz der Erde , Abth . I. Only fifteen years ago a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gave rise to a flood which covered 3000 square miles ...
... Hasisadra's adventure . It would be unrea- sonable to doubt that such a flood might have happened , and that such a person might have escaped in the way described , any time during the last 5000 years . And if the postulate of loose ...
... Hasisadra's, might easily result. 2 Thus there seems to be no valid reason for rejecting Hasisadra's story on physical grounds. I do not gather from the narrative that the "mountains of Nizir" were supposed to be submerged, but merely ...
... Hasisadra's might drive before a 1 See the instructive chapter on Hasisadra's flood in Suess , Das Antlitz der Erde , Abth . I. Only fifteen years ago a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gave rise to a flood which covered 3000 square miles ...
... Hasisadra's , might easily result . * Thus there seems to be no valid reason for rejecting Hasisadra's story on physical grounds . I do not gather from the nar- rative that the " mountains of Nizir " were supposed to be submerged , but ...