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Feb 22, 2021 18:43:00   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique to our age, kemmer, in response to your question. Vast areas of the earth's surface was deforested millennia ago.

"Ancient Mesopotamia" is now nicknamed "The Fertile Crescent." Today "The Fertile Crescent" includes the countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name meaning "The land between two rivers." It was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Historians call Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization because it was here that civilizations were first created, over 6,000 years ago. The 1st civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia, known as Sumer, grew up along the banks of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Both of these rivers have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

In Scripture (Genesis 6:3), the reference to 120 years, is not in the context of Noah building the Ark. The Bible does not directly say that Noah took 120 years to build the ark; God merely deemed that the pre-deluvian or pre-flood last days of Noah's time would only last 120 years from when God made that determination. Nor does it definitively say that Noah built the ark alone, unassisted. He could have hired laborers to assist him. 120 years seems to be the length of God's patience, and then He sent the Flood to cleanse the earth of the evil which man had ignored God's instructions and commands to create and perform.

In antiquity vast forests grew in the Middle East. During the early third millennium BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests, which disappeared in the millennia before Christ’s birth about two thousand years ago.

Their destruction is recorded in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a pagan syncretism of the Genesis history of Noah, the universal Flood and the Ark. It was written in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. The second episode of the epic is known as “The Forest Journey” and is the story of deforestation throughout the Middle East.

Gilgamesh wished to make for himself “a name that endures” by building “walls, a great rampart and the temple of blessed Eanna.” To realise his ambitious construction program he needed large amounts of timber and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the natural forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time.

The land, that is located between the two rivers was a region called Sumer and spread over more than 10,000 square miles.

The forests of the ancient Near East were the resource for the construction of temples and palaces in the kingdoms and empires in the Fertile Crescent. The rulers of these kingdoms and empires undertook massive building programs to display their power and wealth. In doing so they needed large amounts of, mainly, cedar timber.

The story of Gilgamesh is the story of the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, in what is present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia encompassed present day Iran, formerly Persia, and most of modern Iraq, but the region could, even then, be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey.

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millenium BCE:

1) the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today.
2) the invention of writing took form independently in Mesoamerica (also discovered in Egypt, the Indus Valley, in China).

The invention of the wheel is also credited to the Mesopotamians and, in 1922 CE, the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered “the remains of two four-wheeled wagons, [at the site of the ancient city of Ur] the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires” (Bertman, 35). Other important developments or inventions credited to the Mesopotamians include, but are by no means limited to, domestication of animals, agriculture, common tools, sophisticated weaponry and warfare, the chariot, wine, beer, demarcation of time into hours, minutes, and seconds, religious rites, the sail (sailboats), and irrigation. Orientalist Samuel Noah Kramer, in fact, has listed 39 `firsts' in human civilization that originated in Sumer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. These include:

The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing', The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves', The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer's Almanac', The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, including `Noah' and 'Moses,' The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. George', The First Case of Literary Borrowing, Man's First Heroic Age, The First Love Song, The First Library Catalogue, Man's First Golden Age, The First `Sick' Society, The First Liturgic Laments, The First knowledge of 'Messiah,' The First Long-Distance Champion, The First Literary Imagery, The First Sex Symbolism, The First Mater Dolorosa, The First Lullaby, The First Literary Portrait, The First Elegies, Labor's First Victory, The First Aquarium.

The fate of the cedar forests was sealed by the ambitions and lack of stewardship of man.

The Phoenicians (descendants of the Canaanites), one of the oldest sea-trading nations in the world, needed timbers for their ships and used the cedars of Lebanon to construct them. Writers such as Homer, Pliny, and Plato, along with the Old Testament provide us with well-documented descriptions of the once richly forested mountains of Lebanon.

The Bible also vividly describes the practice of rulers in the Ancient Middle East to fell cedar trees to build massive monuments. The account of the construction of the first temple in Jerusalem tells us that king Solomon sends a message to the king of Tyre with the request to provide him with timber: “so give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me”. What follows is a detailed account of how the trees are taken down from the mountains of the Lebanon and floated in rafts by the sea to Israel.

The earliest civilizations of the ancient world, just as now, were destroying forest resources.

All these surviving stories, myths and histories from the ancient world confirm the historicity of God's Biblical revelation of the ark that allowed mankind to begin anew.

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Feb 22, 2021 21:08:41   #
Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX
 
Zemirah wrote:
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique to our age, kemmer, in response to your question. Vast areas of the earth's surface was deforested millennia ago.

"Ancient Mesopotamia" is now nicknamed "The Fertile Crescent." Today "The Fertile Crescent" includes the countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name meaning "The land between two rivers." It was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Historians call Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization because it was here that civilizations were first created, over 6,000 years ago. The 1st civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia, known as Sumer, grew up along the banks of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Both of these rivers have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

In Scripture (Genesis 6:3), the reference to 120 years, is not in the context of Noah building the Ark. The Bible does not directly say that Noah took 120 years to build the ark; God merely deemed that the pre-deluvian or pre-flood last days of Noah's time would only last 120 years from when God made that determination. Nor does it definitively say that Noah built the ark alone, unassisted. He could have hired laborers to assist him. 120 years seems to be the length of God's patience, and then He sent the Flood to cleanse the earth of the evil which man had ignored God's instructions and commands to create and perform.

In antiquity vast forests grew in the Middle East. During the early third millennium BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests, which disappeared in the millennia before Christ’s birth about two thousand years ago.

Their destruction is recorded in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a pagan syncretism of the Genesis history of Noah, the universal Flood and the Ark. It was written in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. The second episode of the epic is known as “The Forest Journey” and is the story of deforestation throughout the Middle East.

Gilgamesh wished to make for himself “a name that endures” by building “walls, a great rampart and the temple of blessed Eanna.” To realise his ambitious construction program he needed large amounts of timber and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the natural forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time.

The land, that is located between the two rivers was a region called Sumer and spread over more than 10,000 square miles.

The forests of the ancient Near East were the resource for the construction of temples and palaces in the kingdoms and empires in the Fertile Crescent. The rulers of these kingdoms and empires undertook massive building programs to display their power and wealth. In doing so they needed large amounts of, mainly, cedar timber.

The story of Gilgamesh is the story of the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, in what is present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia encompassed present day Iran, formerly Persia, and most of modern Iraq, but the region could, even then, be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey.

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millenium BCE:

1) the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today.
2) the invention of writing took form independently in Mesoamerica (also discovered in Egypt, the Indus Valley, in China).

The invention of the wheel is also credited to the Mesopotamians and, in 1922 CE, the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered “the remains of two four-wheeled wagons, [at the site of the ancient city of Ur] the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires” (Bertman, 35). Other important developments or inventions credited to the Mesopotamians include, but are by no means limited to, domestication of animals, agriculture, common tools, sophisticated weaponry and warfare, the chariot, wine, beer, demarcation of time into hours, minutes, and seconds, religious rites, the sail (sailboats), and irrigation. Orientalist Samuel Noah Kramer, in fact, has listed 39 `firsts' in human civilization that originated in Sumer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. These include:

The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing', The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves', The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer's Almanac', The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, including `Noah' and 'Moses,' The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. George', The First Case of Literary Borrowing, Man's First Heroic Age, The First Love Song, The First Library Catalogue, Man's First Golden Age, The First `Sick' Society, The First Liturgic Laments, The First knowledge of 'Messiah,' The First Long-Distance Champion, The First Literary Imagery, The First Sex Symbolism, The First Mater Dolorosa, The First Lullaby, The First Literary Portrait, The First Elegies, Labor's First Victory, The First Aquarium.

The fate of the cedar forests was sealed by the ambitions and lack of stewardship of man.

The Phoenicians (descendants of the Canaanites), one of the oldest sea-trading nations in the world, needed timbers for their ships and used the cedars of Lebanon to construct them. Writers such as Homer, Pliny, and Plato, along with the Old Testament provide us with well-documented descriptions of the once richly forested mountains of Lebanon.

The Bible also vividly describes the practice of rulers in the Ancient Middle East to fell cedar trees to build massive monuments. The account of the construction of the first temple in Jerusalem tells us that king Solomon sends a message to the king of Tyre with the request to provide him with timber: “so give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me”. What follows is a detailed account of how the trees are taken down from the mountains of the Lebanon and floated in rafts by the sea to Israel.

The earliest civilizations of the ancient world, just as now, were destroying forest resources.

All these surviving stories, myths and histories from the ancient world confirm the historicity of God's Biblical revelation of the ark that allowed mankind to begin anew.
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique t... (show quote)


The Sharah Desert is full of whale bones in places along with huge crocodile bones. Researchers say it was once a mangrove-type setting, where they birthed their calves. Lots of seashells and other creatures like elephants and ostriches. A once very fertile place teaming with life.

I have also read Saudia Arabia was once covered with trees and forest. But some bigs guys chopped them down. The Turks did the same to Israel. They put a tax on trees so people chopped most of them down. Governments and taxes have always been a curse on the non-elite common people. The African plate is still moving toward Europe.

The first moon rocks were from Earth and the Moon doesn't rotate. Only one side, the one facing Earth is dotted with craters. Something big seems to have occurred on Earth once upon a time. And water is the most corrosive substance on Earth. That seems to agree with the firmament above the Earth being punctured. With all that lubricant continents could move rather quickly and far.

Antarctica seems to be warming from underground thermal vents. I wonder what will be revealed when more ice melts? Boreholes have revealed creatures exist without air and in the dark. Earth, an amazing place we call home. Admiral Byrd one of the few men presented a medal with his face on it, traveled down there with an armada under the title of Operation Paperclip. Whoever he met, sent him limping back home, defeated. He knew many of our nation's most guarded secrets. He never revealed them, but some say, he shared his notes or diary on his death bed.

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Feb 22, 2021 21:58:49   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
Thanks for the information, Peewee,

Without the abundant availability of wood, Europe would never have been able to undertake the exploration of the world’s oceans in wooden ships that led to the great geographic discoveries and development in the "new world," i.e., the western hemisphere.

Such development became very difficult in the Middle East, because the ancient forests had largely been laid waste, and disappeared during antiquity.

The Sahara was one of the first regions of Africa to be farmed. Some 5,000 years ago, the area was not so arid and the vegetation closer to a savanna, a mixed woodland - grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient sunlight to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer of growth consisting primarily of grasses.

Previous fauna (the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
n.
A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.
n.
The total of the animal life of a given region or period; the sum of the animals living in a given area or time: a term corresponding to flora in respect of plants):
can be recognized in ancient stone carvings. However, desertification set in around 3,000 BCE, and the area became much like it is now.

The Sahara Desert is now the world's largest hot, non-polar desert, located in North Africa, it stretches from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The present surface of the desert ranges from large areas of sand dunes, to stone plateaus, gravel plains, dry valleys (wadis), and salt flats. The only permanent river that crosses the eco-region is the Nile River, originating in east Africa and emptying northward into the Mediterranean Sea.

Some areas encompass vast underground aquifers (body of rock and/or sediment that holds groundwater). Groundwater is the word used to describe precipitation that has infiltrated the soil beyond the surface and collected in empty spaces underground, resulting in oases, while other regions severely lack water reserves.



Peewee wrote:
The Sharah Desert is full of whale bones in places along with huge crocodile bones. Researchers say it was once a mangrove-type setting, where they birthed their calves. Lots of seashells and other creatures like elephants and ostriches. A once very fertile place teaming with life.

I have also read Saudia Arabia was once covered with trees and forest. But some big guys chopped them down. The Turks did the same to Israel. They put a tax on trees so people chopped most of them down. Governments and taxes have always been a curse on the non-elite common people. The African plate is still moving toward Europe.

The first moon rocks were from Earth and the Moon doesn't rotate. Only one side, the one facing Earth is dotted with craters. Something big seems to have occurred on Earth once upon a time. And water is the most corrosive substance on Earth. That seems to agree with the firmament above the Earth being punctured. With all that lubricant continents could move rather quickly and far.

Antarctica seems to be warming from underground thermal vents. I wonder what will be revealed when more ice melts? Boreholes have revealed creatures exist without air and in the dark. Earth, an amazing place we call home. Admiral Byrd one of the few men presented a medal with his face on it, traveled down there with an armada under the title of Operation Paperclip. Whoever he met, sent him limping back home, defeated. He knew many of our nation's most guarded secrets. He never revealed them, but some say, he shared his notes or diary on his death bed.
The Sharah Desert is full of whale bones in places... (show quote)

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Feb 22, 2021 23:09:29   #
lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas
 
Zemirah wrote:
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique to our age, kemmer, in response to your question. Vast areas of the earth's surface was deforested millennia ago.

"Ancient Mesopotamia" is now nicknamed "The Fertile Crescent." Today "The Fertile Crescent" includes the countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name meaning "The land between two rivers." It was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Historians call Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization because it was here that civilizations were first created, over 6,000 years ago. The 1st civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia, known as Sumer, grew up along the banks of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Both of these rivers have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

In Scripture (Genesis 6:3), the reference to 120 years, is not in the context of Noah building the Ark. The Bible does not directly say that Noah took 120 years to build the ark; God merely deemed that the pre-deluvian or pre-flood last days of Noah's time would only last 120 years from when God made that determination. Nor does it definitively say that Noah built the ark alone, unassisted. He could have hired laborers to assist him. 120 years seems to be the length of God's patience, and then He sent the Flood to cleanse the earth of the evil which man had ignored God's instructions and commands to create and perform.

In antiquity vast forests grew in the Middle East. During the early third millennium BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests, which disappeared in the millennia before Christ’s birth about two thousand years ago.

Their destruction is recorded in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a pagan syncretism of the Genesis history of Noah, the universal Flood and the Ark. It was written in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. The second episode of the epic is known as “The Forest Journey” and is the story of deforestation throughout the Middle East.

Gilgamesh wished to make for himself “a name that endures” by building “walls, a great rampart and the temple of blessed Eanna.” To realise his ambitious construction program he needed large amounts of timber and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the natural forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time.

The land, that is located between the two rivers was a region called Sumer and spread over more than 10,000 square miles.

The forests of the ancient Near East were the resource for the construction of temples and palaces in the kingdoms and empires in the Fertile Crescent. The rulers of these kingdoms and empires undertook massive building programs to display their power and wealth. In doing so they needed large amounts of, mainly, cedar timber.

The story of Gilgamesh is the story of the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, in what is present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia encompassed present day Iran, formerly Persia, and most of modern Iraq, but the region could, even then, be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey.

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millenium BCE:

1) the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today.
2) the invention of writing took form independently in Mesoamerica (also discovered in Egypt, the Indus Valley, in China).

The invention of the wheel is also credited to the Mesopotamians and, in 1922 CE, the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered “the remains of two four-wheeled wagons, [at the site of the ancient city of Ur] the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires” (Bertman, 35). Other important developments or inventions credited to the Mesopotamians include, but are by no means limited to, domestication of animals, agriculture, common tools, sophisticated weaponry and warfare, the chariot, wine, beer, demarcation of time into hours, minutes, and seconds, religious rites, the sail (sailboats), and irrigation. Orientalist Samuel Noah Kramer, in fact, has listed 39 `firsts' in human civilization that originated in Sumer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. These include:

The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing', The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves', The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer's Almanac', The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, including `Noah' and 'Moses,' The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. George', The First Case of Literary Borrowing, Man's First Heroic Age, The First Love Song, The First Library Catalogue, Man's First Golden Age, The First `Sick' Society, The First Liturgic Laments, The First knowledge of 'Messiah,' The First Long-Distance Champion, The First Literary Imagery, The First Sex Symbolism, The First Mater Dolorosa, The First Lullaby, The First Literary Portrait, The First Elegies, Labor's First Victory, The First Aquarium.

The fate of the cedar forests was sealed by the ambitions and lack of stewardship of man.

The Phoenicians (descendants of the Canaanites), one of the oldest sea-trading nations in the world, needed timbers for their ships and used the cedars of Lebanon to construct them. Writers such as Homer, Pliny, and Plato, along with the Old Testament provide us with well-documented descriptions of the once richly forested mountains of Lebanon.

The Bible also vividly describes the practice of rulers in the Ancient Middle East to fell cedar trees to build massive monuments. The account of the construction of the first temple in Jerusalem tells us that king Solomon sends a message to the king of Tyre with the request to provide him with timber: “so give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me”. What follows is a detailed account of how the trees are taken down from the mountains of the Lebanon and floated in rafts by the sea to Israel.

The earliest civilizations of the ancient world, just as now, were destroying forest resources.

All these surviving stories, myths and histories from the ancient world confirm the historicity of God's Biblical revelation of the ark that allowed mankind to begin anew.
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique t... (show quote)


Home Depot.

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Feb 23, 2021 02:33:08   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
Good thought, lpn.

Possibly the mobile cell tower was out, or his phone wasn't 4G.



lpnmajor wrote:
Home Depot.

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Feb 23, 2021 09:05:56   #
bahmer
 
Zemirah wrote:
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique to our age, kemmer, in response to your question. Vast areas of the earth's surface was deforested millennia ago.

"Ancient Mesopotamia" is now nicknamed "The Fertile Crescent." Today "The Fertile Crescent" includes the countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name meaning "The land between two rivers." It was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Historians call Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization because it was here that civilizations were first created, over 6,000 years ago. The 1st civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia, known as Sumer, grew up along the banks of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Both of these rivers have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

In Scripture (Genesis 6:3), the reference to 120 years, is not in the context of Noah building the Ark. The Bible does not directly say that Noah took 120 years to build the ark; God merely deemed that the pre-deluvian or pre-flood last days of Noah's time would only last 120 years from when God made that determination. Nor does it definitively say that Noah built the ark alone, unassisted. He could have hired laborers to assist him. 120 years seems to be the length of God's patience, and then He sent the Flood to cleanse the earth of the evil which man had ignored God's instructions and commands to create and perform.

In antiquity vast forests grew in the Middle East. During the early third millennium BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests, which disappeared in the millennia before Christ’s birth about two thousand years ago.

Their destruction is recorded in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a pagan syncretism of the Genesis history of Noah, the universal Flood and the Ark. It was written in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. The second episode of the epic is known as “The Forest Journey” and is the story of deforestation throughout the Middle East.

Gilgamesh wished to make for himself “a name that endures” by building “walls, a great rampart and the temple of blessed Eanna.” To realise his ambitious construction program he needed large amounts of timber and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the natural forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time.

The land, that is located between the two rivers was a region called Sumer and spread over more than 10,000 square miles.

The forests of the ancient Near East were the resource for the construction of temples and palaces in the kingdoms and empires in the Fertile Crescent. The rulers of these kingdoms and empires undertook massive building programs to display their power and wealth. In doing so they needed large amounts of, mainly, cedar timber.

The story of Gilgamesh is the story of the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, in what is present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia encompassed present day Iran, formerly Persia, and most of modern Iraq, but the region could, even then, be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey.

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millenium BCE:

1) the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today.
2) the invention of writing took form independently in Mesoamerica (also discovered in Egypt, the Indus Valley, in China).

The invention of the wheel is also credited to the Mesopotamians and, in 1922 CE, the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered “the remains of two four-wheeled wagons, [at the site of the ancient city of Ur] the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires” (Bertman, 35). Other important developments or inventions credited to the Mesopotamians include, but are by no means limited to, domestication of animals, agriculture, common tools, sophisticated weaponry and warfare, the chariot, wine, beer, demarcation of time into hours, minutes, and seconds, religious rites, the sail (sailboats), and irrigation. Orientalist Samuel Noah Kramer, in fact, has listed 39 `firsts' in human civilization that originated in Sumer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. These include:

The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing', The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves', The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer's Almanac', The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, including `Noah' and 'Moses,' The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. George', The First Case of Literary Borrowing, Man's First Heroic Age, The First Love Song, The First Library Catalogue, Man's First Golden Age, The First `Sick' Society, The First Liturgic Laments, The First knowledge of 'Messiah,' The First Long-Distance Champion, The First Literary Imagery, The First Sex Symbolism, The First Mater Dolorosa, The First Lullaby, The First Literary Portrait, The First Elegies, Labor's First Victory, The First Aquarium.

The fate of the cedar forests was sealed by the ambitions and lack of stewardship of man.

The Phoenicians (descendants of the Canaanites), one of the oldest sea-trading nations in the world, needed timbers for their ships and used the cedars of Lebanon to construct them. Writers such as Homer, Pliny, and Plato, along with the Old Testament provide us with well-documented descriptions of the once richly forested mountains of Lebanon.

The Bible also vividly describes the practice of rulers in the Ancient Middle East to fell cedar trees to build massive monuments. The account of the construction of the first temple in Jerusalem tells us that king Solomon sends a message to the king of Tyre with the request to provide him with timber: “so give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me”. What follows is a detailed account of how the trees are taken down from the mountains of the Lebanon and floated in rafts by the sea to Israel.

The earliest civilizations of the ancient world, just as now, were destroying forest resources.

All these surviving stories, myths and histories from the ancient world confirm the historicity of God's Biblical revelation of the ark that allowed mankind to begin anew.
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique t... (show quote)


Amen and Amen excellent Zemirah thanks for the history lesson for today.

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Feb 23, 2021 21:23:04   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
Thank you, bahmer,

It's always good to remind all of us that the entire Bible is literally history.

It took place in time and space between the Triune God, the Creator of the universe, and real flesh and blood people here on planet earth.

It's not a fairy tale, not a myth and not from the imagination of man.


bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen excellent Zemirah thanks for the history lesson for today.

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Feb 24, 2021 08:52:21   #
bahmer
 
Zemirah wrote:
Thank you, bahmer,

It's always good to remind all of us that the entire Bible is literally history.

It took place in time and space between the Triune God, the Creator of the universe, and real flesh and blood people here on planet earth.

It's not a fairy tale, not a myth and not from the imagination of man.


Amen and Amen

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Mar 4, 2021 18:33:47   #
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Zemirah wrote:
Destruction of the world’s forests is not unique to our age, kemmer, in response to your question. Vast areas of the earth's surface was deforested millennia ago.

"Ancient Mesopotamia" is now nicknamed "The Fertile Crescent." Today "The Fertile Crescent" includes the countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name meaning "The land between two rivers." It was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Historians call Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization because it was here that civilizations were first created, over 6,000 years ago. The 1st civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia, known as Sumer, grew up along the banks of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Both of these rivers have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

In Scripture (Genesis 6:3), the reference to 120 years, is not in the context of Noah building the Ark. The Bible does not directly say that Noah took 120 years to build the ark; God merely deemed that the pre-deluvian or pre-flood last days of Noah's time would only last 120 years from when God made that determination. Nor does it definitively say that Noah built the ark alone, unassisted. He could have hired laborers to assist him. 120 years seems to be the length of God's patience, and then He sent the Flood to cleanse the earth of the evil which man had ignored God's instructions and commands to create and perform.

In antiquity vast forests grew in the Middle East. During the early third millennium BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests, which disappeared in the millennia before Christ’s birth about two thousand years ago.

Their destruction is recorded in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a pagan syncretism of the Genesis history of Noah, the universal Flood and the Ark. It was written in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. The second episode of the epic is known as “The Forest Journey” and is the story of deforestation throughout the Middle East.

Gilgamesh wished to make for himself “a name that endures” by building “walls, a great rampart and the temple of blessed Eanna.” To realise his ambitious construction program he needed large amounts of timber and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the natural forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time.

The land, that is located between the two rivers was a region called Sumer and spread over more than 10,000 square miles.

The forests of the ancient Near East were the resource for the construction of temples and palaces in the kingdoms and empires in the Fertile Crescent. The rulers of these kingdoms and empires undertook massive building programs to display their power and wealth. In doing so they needed large amounts of, mainly, cedar timber.

The story of Gilgamesh is the story of the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, in what is present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia encompassed present day Iran, formerly Persia, and most of modern Iraq, but the region could, even then, be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey.

Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millenium BCE:

1) the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today.
2) the invention of writing took form independently in Mesoamerica (also discovered in Egypt, the Indus Valley, in China).

The invention of the wheel is also credited to the Mesopotamians and, in 1922 CE, the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered “the remains of two four-wheeled wagons, [at the site of the ancient city of Ur] the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires” (Bertman, 35). Other important developments or inventions credited to the Mesopotamians include, but are by no means limited to, domestication of animals, agriculture, common tools, sophisticated weaponry and warfare, the chariot, wine, beer, demarcation of time into hours, minutes, and seconds, religious rites, the sail (sailboats), and irrigation. Orientalist Samuel Noah Kramer, in fact, has listed 39 `firsts' in human civilization that originated in Sumer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. These include:

The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing', The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves', The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer's Almanac', The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, including `Noah' and 'Moses,' The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. George', The First Case of Literary Borrowing, Man's First Heroic Age, The First Love Song, The First Library Catalogue, Man's First Golden Age, The First `Sick' Society, The First Liturgic Laments, The First knowledge of 'Messiah,' The First Long-Distance Champion, The First Literary Imagery, The First Sex Symbolism, The First Mater Dolorosa, The First Lullaby, The First Literary Portrait, The First Elegies, Labor's First Victory, The First Aquarium.

The fate of the cedar forests was sealed by the ambitions and lack of stewardship of man.

The Phoenicians (descendants of the Canaanites), one of the oldest sea-trading nations in the world, needed timbers for their ships and used the cedars of Lebanon to construct them. Writers such as Homer, Pliny, and Plato, along with the Old Testament provide us with well-documented descriptions of the once richly forested mountains of Lebanon.

The Bible also vividly describes the practice of rulers in the Ancient Middle East to fell cedar trees to build massive monuments. The account of the construction of the first temple in Jerusalem tells us that king Solomon sends a message to the king of Tyre with the request to provide him with timber: “so give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me”. What follows is a detailed account of how the trees are taken down from the mountains of the Lebanon and floated in rafts by the sea to Israel.

The earliest civilizations of the ancient world, just as now, were destroying forest resources.

All these surviving stories, myths and histories from the ancient world confirm the historicity of God's Biblical revelation of the ark that allowed mankind to begin anew.
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WOW Thanks for the research, Amen and Amen.

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