Strike the rock and there shall come water climate changes, water resources and history of the Lands of the Bible /
This book presents an update and revision of the book Water Shall Flow from the Rock - Hydrogeology and Climate in the Lands of the Bible by A. Issar, published by Springer-Verlag in 1990. The enormous quantity and quality of new data added since 1990 called for a thorough update. Another reason for...
| Main Author: | Issar, A., |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 127 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in geography.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.