Studies by Roberto Tiso and Azad Vartanian
Analysis
on Noah’s Ark records by Tito De Luca and Roberto Tiso After having talked to Prof. Utenberger who is a teacher of Greek and ancient Hebrew, we once again were able to give credibility to the discoveries made by Angelo Palego concerning the position of the only one window of Noah’s Ark and the two summits of Ararat mountains. The
first issue has to do with the translation of the Hebrew term <TSOHAR>
in Genesis 6:16. The
term indicate an "Opening" in a wall near the roof (opening
in the higher part of a building).
Than
there is the word <CHALLON>
used in Genesis 8: 6 when
Noah wants to let the crow free we are said that he opens the Challon
referred to as a pure and "real window".
In Genesis
8:13 when Noah wants to go
on the roof top to look at
the land if it (was) were dry he opens the <MIKSEH> (Latin
"Operculum") which literally means "shingle
coverage" (shingle roof -
board coverage). Going on with the story of the deluge, Genesis 8: 3 says: "And
the waters began receding from off the earth, progressively receding.";
here the Hebrew verb used for “receding” is <SHUV>
which literally contains the idea of a total inversion of an action, so
if at first waters grew afterwards waters stopped growing and started to
recede. Again Genesis 8: 3, in the second paragraph, we read: "and
at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lacking".
"were lacking" is a translation of the Hebrew verb <CHSAR>
that means " to begin lacking ", to be cut off
(to run out to lose
strength – to grow weaker – to fade) in other words (- to draw back
– to move back - ) to give space to the emergent earth.
Genesis
8: 4 says "the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat". "Came
to rest" is the translation of the Hebrew verb <NUACH>.
It
means "it was placed", on the earth "it rested"
or it stopped floating. Genesis
8: 5 says that "the tops of the mountains appeared".
Here it is clear that the mountains it is talked about are those of
Ararat because in the previous paragraph 8:4 it is said that the ark
came to rest on the mountains of Ararat
and according to the ancient Hebrew grammar the term "mountains"
is the subject both of Genesis 8: 4 and of Genesis 8:5, therefore
"the tops of the mountains” that appeared are those of Ararat. "Tops"
is rendered for the Hebrew <ROSHE'>. To
understand better please see the two verses
quoted from the Revised Standard Version reproduced hereafter:
To
come to an end there is no doubt that in the verse 5 cited above the
tops of the mountains which is said to be seen are those of Ararat
furthermore it is clear that the mountains were seen by Noah The
Hebrew term <ROSHE'> indicates the very top of the peaks
of the Ararat mountains appearing from the water surface . As the peaks
<ROSHE'> are the subject of the sentence reporting the running
aground of the Ark on the mountains of Ararat, therefore the two peaks
<ROSHE'> are undoubtedly those of Ararat and Ararat is the subject
of the sentence reported by Moses
who wrote the book of Genesis
In the ancient Hebrew language used by Moses to write the story
of the first five books of the Bible,
the term translated "they appeared" is referred
to the peaks of Ararat mountains, Noah
and the Ark are the topics of the story. There
is a similar use of the subject in Genesis 9:14 and 16. In these verses the subject is God who drew up a covenant and
bound himself "to remember it". In Genesis 9:15 "the
rainbow appears in the clouds" to God to remember Him to send the
deluge not anymore. In
Genesis 8: 4 the subject is the ark that rested on the mountains of
Ararat. It
is to the ark and its important content that Genesis 8: 5 addresses to.
Through Noah and his family God
fulfilled His purpose to preserve human
race and its posterity from which finally would have discended
the Messiah. We
understand that the subject of the story is Noah also from the context
of the next verses from 6 to 13 in which his name (Noah) is used to
underline every action, verb, etc., carried out by the same Noah.
Therefore from
the study of Tito we deduce that most probably what Noah saw on the 17th
day of the tenth month (Gen 8: 4) was a very low and wide hill.
Naturally much lower than the actual seize, because then it was not
covered by ices. Noah
at that time did not realize that the Ark rested on the top of a
mountain, he believed the Ark stopped
on the plaine. Only after 73 days (Gen 8 :4), when he saw the
peak of the Little Ararat appearing from the water surface in a lower
position compared with the Great Ararat, he realized to be over a
mountain. Therefore when the tops of the mountains were seen by Noah
he realized to be over a peak, or better a cuspid (Hebrew term <ROSHE'>)
the cuspid of the Great Ararat, actually in that moment when he
saw the peak (<ROSHE'>) of the Little Ararat he understood
to be over the mountain.
Another aspect to clear is that verses from 8: 6 to 8:12 should
be understood or read after the verse 17th
of the chapter 7th
for three main reasons:
1st
The period of 40 days are repeated three times in the verses
7:12; 7:17 and 8:6,
therefore they clearly result to be the same temporal periods of the
great precipitation.
2nd
If Noah saw the peaks of the mountains it would not have been a
reasonable action to send out first a crow and then the dove to know if
waters were decreased on the earth. In this last case the crow or the
dove would have brought immediately to him olive twigs.
3rd Geneses 8: 8 say that Noah "Later sent out from him a dove ". The Hebrew translated "later" comes from <And> and it means "subsequently" which can represent even months. Therefore starting the third month on the 27th day after the rain had ceased Noah sent out the crow. We don't know how many times the crow went and returned to Noah in the ark. Then
the Bible says "later" which may
involve few months, Noah sent the dove out three times from week
to week which gets to the
seventh month. Finally when the dove did not return anymore he
understood that it "found
resting-place for its claws" (Gen 8: 9; 8: 12). Therefore it
is logic to believe the ark stopped on the top <ROSHE'> of the
Great Ararat in that moment.
1)
On the
year 600 of Noah’s life starts
the deluge: it was the 2nd
month, on the day 17th 2)
The
deluge lasted 40 days and ended the
3rd month day
the 27th 3)
Noah
opens the window and let the crow free: about the 4th
month 4)
The
crow goes out and reenters "until it finds earth": 4th
and 5th month
5)
Noah
"later" sends out the dove: end of the 6th month
6)
Noah
again send out twice every 7 days the dove: 7th month
7)
The ark
stopped on the mountains of Ararat: the 7th
month, day the 17th
8)
Crow
and dove don't return anymore: 7th
month 9)
Noah
from the same window sees the "tops of the mountains": 10th
month, day the 1st
10) Noah
removes the coverage and he sees the dry land: Year 601 of Noah 1st
month, day the 1st 11) Noah goes out of the ark: 2nd month, day the 27th
Therefore as sustains Palego in his studies the only tops from a very narrow angling of a window that Noah could see they were the top of the Great one and the Little Ararat. You see photo and animations: Heyelani
Glacier The glacier Parrot
in the northwest of the Ararat it expelled every now and then some wood
beams. Beams found first from Navarra in 1955, then in 1969 from the
Search expedition composed by Navarra together American colleagues and
finally from our colleague Claudio Schranz in December 2002 an July
2010. Plateau Heyelani from quota 4600 mt
Other accounts correlated to the Heyelani Plateau Ø Always Ed Davis says of a "western wall of di Ahora Gorge" Others claim "just to the right of the Ahora gorge". Also the young archaeologist Hardwick Knight pointed out the western face of the Ahora Gorge. Look photo Ø Others as Ray Lubeck and a young shepherd declare that the ark is found surrounded by walls of rock jagged and terrain, or surrounded by small rocks, or in a valley where there are small peaks. Claimbing to a higer vantage point above the ship (ark) Look photo Ø
The
most of witnesses as Gorge Hagopian, Jacob Chichian, David Duchworth,
George Greene etc, claim that the ark was sitting on the edge
of a cliff, sitting on the edge of ledge, or in a promontory,
valley, basin.
etc. Look photo.
As
we did not see glacialed plateau
over the Parrot glacier we wondered what prevented the Ark beams from
sliding downward since it is reasonable to believe that in very few
years the pushing of the Parrot ice-fall (seracco) should have ground
all of them and dragged the pieces down into the valley. We even tried
to reckon the possible traced routes trailed by the glacier while
finding its way to slope
down while dragging the Ark wooden beams. But we found no solution. Furthermore
at that great altitude (4800 meters) the winds are is very strong and
very cold and ice never melts, on the contrary all sightings of the Ark
report about “melted ice surrounding the Ark”.
On the top of the Tapestry you can see Great Ararat and Little Ararat on the left, just as people see the two Ararat being in Erivan (Armenia).It seems to say: "use this big borer, in this point, and you'll find the proof of God exsistence".
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