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The flood written into clay in three independent recensions, a thousand years before Genesis is compiled.
In plain words
The flood story is pressed into clay in Mesopotamia in three separate versions, about a thousand years before Genesis is compiled. Unlike the count of traditions, this is dated and physical.
The mechanism
CONVERGENCE, HARD END — dated and physical rather than ethnographic
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the fall to Babel, undated by the text and undated here
- Plate — British Museum, Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Flood Tablet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg
- SourcesARCHAEOLOGY — Sumerian, Atrahasis and Gilgamesh tablets
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