Hi Guys

Bruce Masse tracked back different clues to conclude an impact in the Indian Ocean caused the Noachic Flood in 2807 BC. But he followed the Sumerian/Babylonian/Assyrian text of the tale which has only 7 days of rain. How to reconcile tha that with the Hebrew tale that lasts just over a year?

Robert Best wrote a book about Noah and proposed that the Ark was washed into the Persian Gulf and it drifted out of sight of land for about a year before grounding in Bahrain (arguably the ancient land of Dilmun.) That would explain the brief rain, and a long time afloat. Best dated the Flood to c.2900 BC based on Noah/Utnapishtim/Ziusudra being called the King of Shurrupak, which suffered a flood radiocarbon dated to c.2900 BC. There's always a certain amount of wiggle-room with such dates, so the two dates are perhaps one and the same.