Strike the Rock and There Shall Come Water : Climate Changes, Water Resources and History of the Lands of the Bible
1. Verfasser: |
Issar, Arie S.
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2014.
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Umfang/Format: |
VIII, 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
Schriftenreihe: |
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Caves, dripstones and soils tell about past climates
- In the beginning
- When Tiamat and Marduk ruled the worlds
- Tiamat and Marduk depart, enter Adam and Eve the tool makers
- Adam and Eve depart, enter Cain the planter and Abel the shepherd
- The Deluge covers the Cradle of Civilization
- From the Tower of Babel to the Laws of Hammurabi
- From Shem the son of Noah to Abraham son of Terah
- The destruction of Sodom and Gemorrah
- Abraham explores the groundwater resources of the Negev
- Egypt: a land like a garden of herbs
- Foreign rulers - The Hyksos. Foreign climate - The Ten Plagues
- Crossing the land of swamps and reeds
- That great and terrible wilderness (Deut. 1:19)
- To smite the rock and water shall come out.