Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Polycarp66 AT aol.com]

In a message dated 6/4/2002 8:58:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lgmay AT mindspring.com writes:


> In Genesis 10 as a result of the confusion of tongues the land was
> divided.  Could this also refer to the continental drift. From looking
> at the coast of Europe and Africa it looks like they were once joined
> with the Americas.
>
> Or could it refer to the generation of mountains, rivers, etc. to keep
> men apart and preventing the dream of a one world government that Nimrod
> tried to establish.


No.  Any attempt to read scientific discussion into the biblical texts is futile.  I think it refers rather to the story of the tower and the confusion of languages in the immediately succeeding chapter.

gfsomsel