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Show DOUBTS ABOUT NOAH. Many of the important parsonages of history have' been shorn of much of their supposed greatness by modern historians and near-historians. It was inevitable that old -Father Noah should got his debunking in due time, and so it has happened. Dr. C. Leonard Woolley, noted archaeologist and field director of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and British museum in Mesopotamia, is the debunker. He declares de-clares that excavations along the Euphrates Eu-phrates river show that the flood of Noah's time, mentioned in 'the Bible, was only a local condition, and that many of the inhabitants of the region escaped to. safety in the hills. The presence of Noah at the scene is doubted by Dr. Woolley, who places the date of the flood at about 4000 B. C, while the Jefs first came to Mesopotamia some 2,000 years later. The archaeologist believes that the Jews heard the legend of Noah, the ark and the dove from the Assyrians and adopted it as their own. In support sup-port of this he pointed to Asstrian tablets which portray the story. Anyway, 0,000 year: is a long time back and while-most archaeologists agree that the popular idea of the flood is greatly exaggerated, it is doubtful whether we shall ever know just what happened around the Euphrates Eu-phrates valley in that distant day. |