Re: Writing and the Tower of Babel story

"On 6 May 2007 20:09:56 -0700, in article
<1178507396.825748.194820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, chadmaester stated..."

On May 6, 9:43 pm, Desertphile <desertph...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6 May 2007 16:12:24 -0700, chadmaester



<chad.d.john...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I read on Wikipedia that the first literate societies developed in the
late 4th millennium BC (seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamians,
which was linked to fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing).

How well does this line up with the biblical account of early history
and the Tower of Babel story (give or take maybe 1000 years)? Is it
valid to say that writing seems to have begun to really flourish
within the timeframe of the biblical account (within some variance)?
Note that the Tower of Babel story (apparently/might) postulates that
the languages were suddenly (or in a relatively short period of time)
orally developed.

I understand that writings have been uncovered that date older than
Mesopotamia (e.g. tortoise-shell carvings dating back to c. 6000 BC),
but isn't it a but odd that most or all writing seems to have begun
within approximately the last 10,000 years?

I appreciate honest and well-supported answers.

Let's see.... you think it odd that an oral myth was written down
at the same time that writing became popular? Does that make any
sense to you?

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What I am asking is, does the fact that time period of the major
developments of written language are (possibly) close to the supposed
~4000BC biblical creation account give credence to the biblical
account of early history?


Something had to happen in about 4000 BC. Particularly if you allow
a window of about a thousand years.

Why choose writing, other than it happens to fit the time-line?

How many major events do you have to choose from?

For example, the "Neolithic Revolution" - the first appearance of
agriculture, in about 8000 BC.


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