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What if the world before the biblical Flood was watered without the sound of rain?
Explore three ancient texts that imagine water arriving in surprising ways: the mist and opened heavens of Genesis, the fresh waters of Dilmun in Enki and Ninhursag, and the Nile and distant rains of the Great Hymn to the Aten. Did it really never rain before Noah’s Flood? The texts offer a more intriguing picture.
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Sources:
- The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary — Robert Alter
- Genesis 1–15 — Gordon J. Wenham
- The Harps That Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation — Thorkild Jacobsen
- Sumerian Mythology — Samuel Noah Kramer
- Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II: The New Kingdom — Miriam Lichtheim
- The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications — John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris
00:00 Intro - A World Before the Sound of Rain
04:20 Act One: Genesis - The Ground Before Cultivation
12:22 Act One: Genesis - A Mist That Waters the Ground
20:22 Act One: Genesis - Waters Above the Firmament
28:26 Act One: Genesis - When the Windows Open
36:46 Act Two: Enki and Ninhursag - Entering Dilmun
45:06 Act Two: Enki and Ninhursag - The Need for Sweet Water
53:37 Act Two: Enki and Ninhursag - Fresh Water from the Earth
1:01:50 Act Two: Enki and Ninhursag - The Greening of Dilmun
1:09:35 Act Three: The Great Hymn to the Aten - Egypt’s River
1:18:46 Act Three: The Great Hymn to the Aten - Water from Below
1:27:20 Act Three: The Great Hymn to the Aten - A Nile in the Sky
1:35:29 Act Three: The Great Hymn to the Aten - Different Lands, Different Water
1:44:05 Three Landscapes - Imagining Life Among Quiet Waters
1:52:11 Conclusion - The Water That Arrives Quietly
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