Flood and fish

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Conklin> 

> I found a Web site that has a copy of an article by Dr. Hasel, (Ph.d. 

> from Vanderbilt; published articles in Biblica, JSOT, JBL, etc.; also 

> wrote a number of article for ISBE) that deals with the Flood and the 

> fish.  The address is: http://www.tagnet.org/gri/w/articles/or05_83.htm


> 

> A portion of the article:

> "What perished according to Genesis 7:21 was "all flesh that moved on 

> the earth of (be) birds and of (be) cattle and of (be) beasts and of 

> (be) every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all men." This 

> literal translation seeks to bring out an aspect usually overlooked. The 

> expression "all flesh" is here clearly limited in that it includes only 

> the enumerated kinds of animals. The function of the preposition teeth 

> is used to specify which kinds of animals are destroyed by the flood.24 

> The writer of the flood account wanted to specify clearly the 

> constituents of the animal world that perished in the flood. He 

> attempted to exclude the water creatures which belonged to "all flesh" 

> but would not perish in the flood. 

> 

> It has become apparent that the expression "all flesh" in the Genesis 

> flood narrative (aside from 6:12,13) expresses either the notion of all 

> living beings, including men and animals, or is used merely with 

> reference to animals, excluding water creatures."

> 


So how did they survive the brackish water?

April

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