FLOOD IN NOAH’S TIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 11

FLOOD IN NOAH’S TIME.

PROFESSOR’S OPINION. Sir Ernest Budge, who was the British Museum's Assyriologitet for 11 years, says: “The Babylonians and Sumerians did not doubt that a great flood really occurred when their civilisation was highly advanced. This tradition was so widespread that it must have had historical foundation. “If the flood of the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hebrew traditions is historical, it is still doubtful whether it refers to the first or second deluge,” said Professor Langdon, referring to the recent discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees. “According to the Book of Genesis, it should be the later one, abut 3400 8.C.” ‘‘FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE.” “The great flood in Mesopotamia, in 1888, was a sample of what its floods can be. It rained then for five days and and many miles of land became a raging sea. But the deluge must have been much more serious, seeing that, traditionally, it flooded the world. Professor Woolley’s discovery of an Bft. layer of flood-deposited clay, on the original site of Ur, is of fundamental importance, and further careful research should bo undertaken. His material evidence of The Flood outweighs in importance his discoveries of Sumerians and Babylonians.”