[Hac-announce] Fwd: The Biblical Flood

[Richard Siddall]

Tom Platt thought you'd find this PBS video informative.

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Subject: The Biblical Flood
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 14:32:45 -0400
From: Thomas Platt <tplatt13 at gmail.com>
To: Richard Siddall <richard.siddall at elirion.net>

A number of years ago, David Schafer gave us a course on the roots of 
Biblical myths.  More recently, PBS's NOVA produced a video entitled 
Secrets of Noah's Ark which first aired October 7, 2015.

Program Description
In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an 
intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the 
story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named Atra-Hasis of a 
future flood that will destroy mankind; Enki gives him instructions for 
building a boat to save his family and livestock. If that sounds like a 
familiar tale, it’s because this was one of several ancient flood 
traditions that, centuries later, would inspire the biblical story of 
Noah. But the tablet’s inscription describes a boat very different from 
the traditional image of the Ark—it’s said to be circular and made of 
reeds. Is this nothing more than a fanciful myth? Or could such a reed 
boat have carried Atra-Hasis’ family of more than one hundred and his 
many animals? Join NOVA as a team of historians and expert boat builders 
investigates this fascinating flood legend and sets out to rebuild a 
tantalizing, ancient forerunner of the Ark.


You can now gain easy and convenient access to this program on YouTube:

The 4:21 minute Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puzki-iGBYI

The full 53:56 minute program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T11kXdFz-mM