There actually was a massive flood in the Mid East around 5,000 B.C. There is a layer of two feet of mud in the Archaeological record in the Earth that corresponds to this time. Also, the Sumerian Gilgamesh Flood story is associated with the tenth king of Sumeria who would have been king at this time. Curiously Noah was the tenth descendant of Adam. Still more curious, all the numbers and dimensions of the Ark are IDENTICAL in the two different narratives, but the Epic of Gilgamesh preceded the Noah story by at least 2,000 years.
This is referenced in two texts:
1. "The Bible Unearthed - New Vision of Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts" by Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finklestein
2. "Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology" by C. W. Ceram
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William Schaeffer
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