Why 2348 B.C.? Well, just do a quick Google search. You will see that it is the date of the Great Flood, according to Bishop Ussher's dating system, which he published between 1642 and 1644. You will also see that the Internet is chockablock with Fundmentalist crap that carries that dating system - books, wall posters, websites, materials for home schooling, etc.
Just out of curiosity, what do we know of the world of 2348 B.C., when our Conservative Christian friends tell us the population of the earth was wiped out, with only 8 survivors? Here is what Wikipedia has:
- c. 2383 BC: Pepi II Neferkare, the longest reigning monarch of all time, started to rule at age 6.
- c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.
- c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIb period in Mesopotamia.
- c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.
- c. 2345 BC: End of Fifth Dynasty. Pharaoh Unas died.
- c. 2345 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 2460 BC).
- c. 2340 BC - 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire.
- c. 2334 BC - 2279 BC: Semitic chieftain Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
- c. 2333 BC: Dangun founded the state Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea), during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao
- City of Lothal founded under the Indus valley civilization.
- Urukagina
- c. 2332 BC — Sargon of Akkad starts to rule
- Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, priestess and the first author known by name
- Ptahhotep, ancient Egyptian Vizier, author of The Maxims of Ptahhotep
2 comments:
Thank you for this. It was just what I was looking for.
It's foolish to think that bible chronology and evolutionary chronology can be compared. Either one or the other can be true. If you were looking for agreement the world is millions of years old, and that ancient cultures evolved over thousands of years you can't rest assured that is the mainstream accepted teaching. But it's foolish to compare that to biblical timelines. The dating of ancient cultures, is based on carbon dating which assumes the world evolved for millions of years. THE BIBLE does not accept evolution as a model of creation so of course it won't align to those timelines. IF YOU THINK "what we know" is somehow accurate then you are fooling yourself and placing blind trust in science without understanding how little we know of those periods, and how "surprised" we are of the sudden emergence of civilisation, writing, and language, and the sudden spread of animals from the middle east across the globe. None of this is to be expected based on evolutionary theories, which is why they are surprised.
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