FLOOD STORY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 12

FLOOD STORY.

WILL CLAY LAYERS TELL? ONE OR MANY ? t “Professor Woolley’s remarkable discovery at Ur does not surprise those who have believed for some years in the actual occurrence of the Mesopotamian flood recorded in the Book of Genesis,” says Mr Harold Peake, vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, in a letter to the London Times, “but a discrepancy exists in the two accounts.

“The Mosaic record says that the flood lasted a few weeks, while other records mention an enormous number of years. Consequently, there is uncertainty whether it was a single visitation or a recurring annual episide. “The question might be decided by sfn. examination of Professor Woollev’s bed of clay. If the clay were laid down in successive years it should show thin layers. If these were counted, as was done in determining the glacial periods, it should give the duration of the flood period.”