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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Rea- paperback, Ian Wilson, 0312319711
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312319711
ISBN-13
9780312319717
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4443548
Product Key Features
Book Title
Before the Flood : the Biblical Flood As a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Ancient / General, Folklore & Mythology, Biblical Studies / History & Culture, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-069452
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
930.1
Table Of Content
I. EXPANSION AND CHANGE. 1. Political Violence During Reconstruction. From Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., Pistols and Politics. 2. The Reservation and the Destruction of Indian Culture. From Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 3. The Farmers' Frontier. From Robert V. Hine, Community on the American Frontier. 4. Labor in the Gilded Age. From Jacquelyn Dowd Hall et al., Like a Family. 5. Labor Violence in Industrial America. From Michael Novak, The Guns of Latimer. 6. Crime and Punishment.* From Lawrence Friedman, Crime and Punishment in American History. II. THE CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY. 7. The City at the Turn of the Century. From David Nasaw, Children of the City. 8. Immigration and Cultural Conflict. From Judy Yung, Unbound Feet. 9. Black Migration. From Florette Henri, Black Migration. III. THE TENSIONS OF PROSPERITY. 10. The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. From Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan. 11. Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. From Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge. 12. Women Take to the Road. From Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel. IV. DEPRESSION AND WAR. 13. The Nation Confronts the Great Depression. From Caroline Bird, The Invisible Scar. 14. Work Relief in the Great Depression. From Edward Robb Ellis, A Nation in Torment. 15. The Home Front During World War II. From Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's a War On? 16. The GI Bill of Rights. From Michael J. Bennett, When Dreams Came True. V. AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS. 17. Urban Neighborhoods in Postwar America.* From Michael Johns, Moment of Grace. 18.That Old Time Rock n Roll.* From Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock n Roll Changed America 19. The Struggle for Civil Rights. From Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer 20. The Counterculture. From Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven. 21. Vietnam and After. From Loren Baritz, Backfire. 22. Culture War. From William Martin, With God on Our Side.
Synopsis
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened in the year 2348 B.C., calculating what was then taken as the age of the earth and working backward through the entire series of Biblical "begats." Proof of the flood, which is an element of so many creation myths, began in earnest when archaeology started connecting physical evidence with Biblical story. The dream of proving the Bible as literal truth has proven irresistible, producing both spurious claims and serious scholarship. As best-selling historian Ian Wilson reveals in this fascinating new book, evidence of a catastrophic event has been building steadily, culminating in the work of William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Several years ago Ryan and Pitman had posited that around 5600 BC there had an inundation in the Black Sea of such proportions that it turned the freshwater lake into a saltwater lake by connecting it to the Mediterranean. Were that true, they estimated that there would be signs of civilization 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea. In September 2000, using his famous underwater equipment, Robert Ballard (of SS Titanic fame) explored parts of the Black Sea near the Turkish shore and found the remains of wood houses. There had been a flood, and whether God's wrath or not it had destroyed everything around it for hundreds of miles, killing tens of thousands of people. Exploring all the archeological evidence, Wilson explains how the Black Sea flood and the Biblical flood have to be connected. In particular, Wilson argues, learnedly and persuasively, that the center of the civilized world was further to the West than previously thought-not in Egypt or Mesopotamia but in what is today Northern Turkey. The earliest, antediluvian civilizations may have migrated east into those places we have come to call the cradles of civilization, forced by the Black Sea flood to create new settlements. Scrupulous in its details and compelling in its sweep, Before the Flood is narrative detective history at its most provocative, contributing a vital new chapter to the debate about the Bible and origins of the modern world.
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BS658.W538 2004
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