Historians have long sought to corroborate the biblical reference to the "mountains of Ararat" with Mount Ararat, or to ascertain the actual location of the mountains mentioned in the account. The Book of Jubilees specifies that the Ark came to rest on one of the peaks of the "Mountains of Ararat" called "Lubar".
Some have sought to connect the name "Ararat" with ancient states in the area such as Urartu, and the even older "Aratta" found in Sumerian records. These cultures were centered around Mount Van in Armenia during Biblical times (currently in Turkey). Mount Ararat has the distinction of holding this tradition among its surrounding cultures for centuries, and is also geographically within ancient Urartu, giving it the most legitimate potential claim as the Biblical Ararat. However, the biblical account could plausibly have been intended refer to any of the mountain ranges associated with Urartu.
Other potential Ararat candidates have been proposed over the millennia at locales as widely distributed as Ethiopia, Ireland, and Iran.
Hundreds of cultures share the Flood legend. As an undergraduate I took an elective class in Comparative Mythology, which is the academic study of different myths, in an attempt to discover how various myths and religions evolved over time, and aims to reveal relationships between distant religions, and describe their origin. If you have the opportunity to take such a class, I highly recommend it.
I also highly recommend "Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World" by Ignatius L. Donnelly, a fascinating book which delves into the comparative mythology of the various Flood legends.
Used copies are availiable from as little as $3.50. You won't regret reading it
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2007-07-01 16:56:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Since the 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to find the ark on the mountains of Ararat. These mountains have two prominent peaks, one 16,950 feet high and the other 12,840 feet. The higher of the two is perpetually covered by snow. Because of the climatic changes that followed the Flood, the ark would soon have been buried by snow. Some investigators firmly believe that the ark is still there, buried deep in a glacier. They claim that there have been periods when the ice melted sufficiently to permit part of the ark to be exposed temporarily.
The book In Search of Noah’s Ark quotes George Hagopian, an Armenian, who claimed that he climbed Mount Ararat and saw the ark in 1902 and again in 1904. On the first visit, he said, he actually climbed on top of the ark. “I stood up straight and looked all over the ship. It was long. The height was about forty feet.” Regarding his observation on his subsequent visit, he said: “I didn’t see any real curves. It was unlike any other boat I have ever seen. It looked more like a flat-bottomed barge.”
From 1952 to 1969, Fernand Navarra made four efforts to find evidence of the ark. On his third trip to Mount Ararat, he worked his way to the bottom of a crevasse in a glacier, where he found a piece of black wood embedded in the ice. “It must have been very long,” he said, “and perhaps still attached to other parts of the ship’s framework. I could only cut along the grain until I split off a piece about five feet long.”
Professor Richard Bliss, one of several experts who examined the wood, said: “The Navarra wood sample is a structural beam and impregnated with bituminous pitch. It has mortise and tenon joints. And it’s definitely hand-hewn and squared.” The estimated age of the wood was set at about four or five thousand years.
Although efforts have been made to find the ark on Mount Ararat, the definite proof that it was used to survive a cataclysmic deluge exists in the written record of that event in the Bible book of Genesis.
The ark had a carrying capacity equal to that of 10 freight trains of about 25 American boxcars each!
2007-07-01 18:14:13
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answered by BJ 7
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The bible suggested that Noah's ark got here to take a seat down back on Ararat, a mountain in eastern Turkey. countless years in the past, a sort of pseudo-documentaries substitute into run on television. interior the snow, a satellite tv for pc image got here across a small patch of brown, approximately 3 pixels particularly worth. Then there have been striations in rock and snow which they suggested have been the ark. Nonsense. in addition they suggested an excursion got here across the ark and had pictures of it some a protracted time till now, yet some tragedy occurred the excursion and all info substitute into lost. Darn! The documentary suggested we could no longer pass and seek for the ark using fact it substitute into in soviet territory. No subject from now on, using fact the Soviet Union now no longer exists. Our chum kilroymaster has suggested the section is under the administration of China. What??? China is over 1500 miles away. those mountains are all in Turkey, Iraq, and a couple of tiny former soviet provinces. possibly he suggested that using fact the believers nonetheless might desire to be able to declare we won't pass there to look for it. relatively, there is even a Noah's Ark customer midsection. properly, eastern Turkey isn't precisely severe on human beings's holiday itineraries. they might desire to compete, y'comprehend. you are able to locate, once you get there, that what they now call "Noah's Ark" is a caldera-like rock formation of no importance. purely a hook to get human beings to pass there. final analysis: there substitute into no Noah's Ark. there substitute into no international-extensive flood. it is biblical delusion.
2016-11-07 22:05:35
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answered by Anonymous
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The ark is on Mount Ararat just like the Bible says.
The only location.
All civilizations have a story about a world wide flood and 8 people saved in a boat with the animals.
Pastor Art
2007-07-01 16:57:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Only one place. Mt Ararat in Turkey as stated in the bible
Genesis 8:4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
2007-07-01 16:59:59
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answered by tebone0315 7
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Turkey is the location and many cultures hold a great flood event.
2007-07-01 16:57:01
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answered by Fish <>< 7
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The only one I've ever heard of was Mount Ararat in Turkey.
2007-07-01 17:06:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Mt Ararat in Turkey and I've been studying the Mayans who believe the earth was destroyed three times already. By beasts then fire and then by water with the fourth time happening in our near future.
2007-07-01 17:04:44
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answered by Sean 7
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Most Mt Ararat in Turkey, but you would be surprised the numvber of "flood myths" there are
2007-07-01 16:59:56
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answered by Experto Credo 7
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I heard that some scientist who climbed to the top of Mt. Ararrat came across some wood planks that were not native to that area. So how else did they get there?
2007-07-01 17:01:22
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answered by USAman 6
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