The Archaeological Evidence of Noah's Flood Book

Contents vi

List of photographs, illustrations, and credits viii

Preface xiv

Acknowledgement xvi

Part I Understanding the Problem 1

1 Introduction 3

2 The author 8

Part II The Bible and History 13

3 The Biblical roots of history 15

4 Christian History 24

Part III The Roots of Modern Historiography 33

5 The Enlightenment's rejection of biblical history 35

6 Developing the modern historiography of ancient and world history 51

8 The archaeological recovery of biblical history 69

Part IV Scientific Prehistory and the Problem of Noah's Flood 73

9 Jesus and Noah's Flood 75

10 How theologians and geologists have understood the Flood 81

11 Young Earth Creationism, its contributions and its problems 95

12 The light by which we see 104

13 How light can be tested 114

14 The challenge due to the fragmentation of knowledge 123

15 My methodology for searching for the Flood 128

Part V Finding the Flood 133

16 Discovery 135

17 Light from Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur 141

18 Flood forensics 147

19 The world before the Flood 154

20 Dating the ancient world and the Flood 158

21 Tracing the Middle Bronze cultures back to their source 176

22 The first international economy on the plains of Shinar 180

23 The new dispersion 185

24 Summing up my search for the Flood 193

Part VI The Flood's Implications for Science and Scholarship 197

25 The Bible and Science 199

26 Climate change and dating the earth's history 211

27 The origins, antiquity, and migrations of man 221

28 Anthropology 238

29 How animals and plants were affected by the Flood 255

30 A geological understanding of the waters of the Flood 262

31 Understanding cosmology in the light of Genesis 269

32 Ancient writing, scripts, and texts 273

33 Higher Criticism of the Bible 280

34 Summary 287

Part VII The Flood's Meaning for Today 291

35 The days of Noah and the Day of the Lord 293

36 What the Scriptures literally say 300

37 Restoring biblical community as a light to a world in trouble 312

38 A bright future for a dark day 320

39 The biblical method for determining truth 335

40 Acknowledging the truth 342

Epilogue: Discovery on Mount Ararat 347

Discovery on Mount Ararat 349

Glossary 369

Topical Bibliography 386

Author and Book Information 411