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● Gen 8:3b-4 . . At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters diminished, so
that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to
rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The Hebrew word for "Ararat" appears three more times in the Bible: one at 2Kgs
19:36-37, one at Isa 37:36-38, and one at Jer 51:27. Ararat in the Bible always
refers to a political area-- specifically the country of Armenia --never to a
prominent geological feature by the same name.
There is a significant difference between the mountains of Ararat and a Mount
Ararat. When the word is plural, like it is above in Gen 8:3b-4, the word can indicate
a range of hills and/or highlands; for example:
In California, where I lived as a kid, the local elevation 35 miles east of San Diego,
in the town of Alpine, was about 2,000 feet above sea level. There were plenty of
meadows with pasture and good soil. In fact much of it was very good ranchland
and quite a few people in that area raised horses and cows. We ourselves kept
about five hundred chickens, and a few goats and calves. We lived in the mountains
of San Diego; but we didn't live up on top of one of its peaks like Viejas, Lyon's, or
Cuyamaca.
It makes better sense to beach the ark on the soil of an elevated plain rather than
up on the tippy top of a mountain seeing as how Noah took up agriculture after the
Flood. Plus, had he been forced to abandoned the ark atop a mountain, Noah
would've lost ready access to an abundant supply of hewn wood that he could
appropriate for other purposes. Noah's sons reproduced so we can be fairly certain
that Noah's posterity-- which eventually numbered quite a few people --would want
lumber from the ark for useful purposes too.
According to the dimensions given at Gen 6:15, the ark was shaped like what the
beautiful minds call a right rectangular prism; which is nothing in the world but the
shape of a common shoe box. So most of the lumber and logs used in its
construction would've been nice and straight; which is perfect for putting together
houses, fences, barns, corrals, stables, gates, hog troughs, mangers, and
outhouses.
Also, nobody cooked or heated their homes or their bath and laundry water using
refined fossil fuels and/or electricity and steam in those days, so everybody needed
to keep on hand a wood pile for their daily needs.
There was probably plenty of driftwood left behind by the Flood, but most of that
would be soaked at first. But according to Gen 6:14 the ark's lumber was treated.
So underneath the pitch it would've still been in pretty good condition.
_
● Gen 8:3b-4 . . At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters diminished, so
that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to
rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The Hebrew word for "Ararat" appears three more times in the Bible: one at 2Kgs
19:36-37, one at Isa 37:36-38, and one at Jer 51:27. Ararat in the Bible always
refers to a political area-- specifically the country of Armenia --never to a
prominent geological feature by the same name.
There is a significant difference between the mountains of Ararat and a Mount
Ararat. When the word is plural, like it is above in Gen 8:3b-4, the word can indicate
a range of hills and/or highlands; for example:
In California, where I lived as a kid, the local elevation 35 miles east of San Diego,
in the town of Alpine, was about 2,000 feet above sea level. There were plenty of
meadows with pasture and good soil. In fact much of it was very good ranchland
and quite a few people in that area raised horses and cows. We ourselves kept
about five hundred chickens, and a few goats and calves. We lived in the mountains
of San Diego; but we didn't live up on top of one of its peaks like Viejas, Lyon's, or
Cuyamaca.
It makes better sense to beach the ark on the soil of an elevated plain rather than
up on the tippy top of a mountain seeing as how Noah took up agriculture after the
Flood. Plus, had he been forced to abandoned the ark atop a mountain, Noah
would've lost ready access to an abundant supply of hewn wood that he could
appropriate for other purposes. Noah's sons reproduced so we can be fairly certain
that Noah's posterity-- which eventually numbered quite a few people --would want
lumber from the ark for useful purposes too.
According to the dimensions given at Gen 6:15, the ark was shaped like what the
beautiful minds call a right rectangular prism; which is nothing in the world but the
shape of a common shoe box. So most of the lumber and logs used in its
construction would've been nice and straight; which is perfect for putting together
houses, fences, barns, corrals, stables, gates, hog troughs, mangers, and
outhouses.
Also, nobody cooked or heated their homes or their bath and laundry water using
refined fossil fuels and/or electricity and steam in those days, so everybody needed
to keep on hand a wood pile for their daily needs.
There was probably plenty of driftwood left behind by the Flood, but most of that
would be soaked at first. But according to Gen 6:14 the ark's lumber was treated.
So underneath the pitch it would've still been in pretty good condition.
_
