Noah’s Ark
Sir,—The British Museum possesses beautifully glazed pottery fragments that I have seen and handled which Sir Charles Woolley excavated from Ur of the Chaldees. They were discovered beneath a 3m
layer of pure clay, above which layers of inferior potsherds and city debris extended unbroken to ground level. Woolley’s conclusion was that only a massive flood, over 4000 years ago, could account for this clay barrier between civilisations. Arthur May’s objections to the Biblical account of the Flood are answered by Keller in his book “The Bible as History,” which I recommend to him. A. May questioned (July 28) “which one of Noah’s sons was the Negro?” Noah’s son Ham’s name means dark coloured. Two of Ham’s sons were Cush, meaning black, also Ethiopia; and Mizraim meaning Egypt. I agree that when Jesus returns to this earth his features may well be darker than many Caucasians anticipated.—Yours, etc., B. CRAWLEY. July 30, 1983.
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