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This research is for Fallen Race: The Other Realm, Book 3
Antediluvian means, before the flood.
How advanced were the people before the flood? What did they accomplish?
Were they comprised of entirely humans? Conventional history and archaeology would tell us that high civilization began around 3500 BC with the Sumerians and the ancient Egyptians.
That was when we started to employ the word civilization. Before that, according to the narrative, we were in hunter-gatherer mode, and did not have agriculture large scale, we weren't building cities yet, and weren't very sophisticated.
But too many researchers, who are studying and writing about the possibility of an advanced civilization in the antediluvian world, are changing my perspective. Evidence is mounting that there was an advanced civilization long before we had previously thought, and there were some strange and interesting things going on in the world before this great cateclysm.
Christian Communities understand the cataclysm as the flood. But it was much more than a flood. There were multiple catastrophic events unfolding on earth and the flood was one of those events. It was the consequence of the series of comet impacts that occurred 12,000 years ago. Most likely the flood of Noah was around 10,000 BC.
Evidence for advanced civilization we now see in the distant past much earlier than 3500 BC. The Younger Dryas hypothesis theory posits that the earth was blasted by common impacts some 12,000 years ago and resulted in all kinds of cataclysmic events, Including global flooding.
The contention Christians have is that they view the genealogies of genesis, the constructs, the lifespans of the pre-flood patriarch, summed up are the equal of a certain number of years. Taken as mathematical equation. They use this system to calculate when the flood occurred, and how old mankind is. But there are two problems.
Problem number one:
Most people are basing this on the Masoretic text that people have in their modern Bibles, compiled by the Masoretes. But there is a much older text used in the early church, called the Septuagint, which means 70 because it was compiled by 70 Jewish scribes in Alexandria long before the birth of Christ. The Septuagint was the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, that the early church used. The Septuagint adds 100 years onto those lifespans which changes the genealogies giving them 1000 more Years.
Problem number two:
The Masoretic, and Septuagint text are not meant to be calculated as a linear timeline. What we see in the genealogies is called telescoping. When genealogies are presented in scripture, often the rule, and not the exception, is that the number of people represented are set to a specific number. That is because numerology was very important to the ancients in general. This meant that the writers of the Septuagint would shorten or lengthen genealogies, to fit into an important number in the scripture. They would go so far as to take someone out of a genealogy to come to numbers that had communicative qualities and were part of the message.
For me, this helps lay the foundation that the flood of Noah very well may have happened many more years ago than we are comfortable contemplating. This notion does not actually conflict with biblical reckoning. Before I progress to the next blog in the series, I wanted to address that issue. Christians generally fall into the camp of "it is exactly as written that we read it today" or "it's allegorical." All of the new evidence has changed my outlook on researching ancient text, including the biblical Septuagint. It changes references to cataclysms, Genesis chapter 6 where Nephilim are discussed, Enoch, and more.
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