Before the Flood: Dramatic New Evidence That the Biblical Flood Was a Real-life Event - Softcover

Wilson, Ian

 
9780752848112: Before the Flood: Dramatic New Evidence That the Biblical Flood Was a Real-life Event
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ISBN 10: 0752848119 ISBN 13: 9780752848112
Publisher: Orion mass market paperback, 2002

Synopsis

For centuries in the Near East archaeological evidence has been turning up of a major flood in the area's ancient history. In 1995, two marine biologists put forward evidence that showed that until almost 7500 years ago the Black Sea was a freshwater lake separated from the Mediterranean by a small strip of land where Istanbul now stands. Their theory suggested that around 5600 BC the Mediterranean broke through the land barrier and salt water poured through with a force 200 times that of Niagara Falls, inundating the Black Sea and raising its level by over 300 feet. In September 2000, marine archaeologist Robert Ballard discovered the wooden remains of houses 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea, 12 miles north of the present-day Turkish coast. Building on this evidence Ian Wilson puts forward the hypothesis that this catastrophic inundation - the Biblical Flood - drowned tens of thousands of people and precipitated an exodus of people to Egypt and Mesopotamia, who formed the precursors of these great civilisations.

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About the Author

Ian Wilson was born in London in 1941 and educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth, and Magdalene College, Oxford, where he graduated in History in 1963. His previous books include The Turin Shroud, which became a worldwide bestseller when published in 1978 and Jesus: The Evidence (1984), a companion to the major three-part TV series of the same name and another bestseller. The Blood and the Shroud was published in 1998. His biography of Shakespeare, Shakespeare: The Evidence was published in 1993 and The Bible is History in 1999. All of his books have attracted critical acclaim.

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Publisher
Orion mass market paperback
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0752848119
ISBN 13 
9780752848112
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400

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