Strike the Rock and There Shall Come Water Climate Changes, Water Resources and History of the Lands of the Bible /

• Main Author: Issar, Arie S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; History.; Hydrogeology.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; History, general.; Physical Geography.

This book presents an update and revision of the book Water Shall Flow from the Rock - Hydrogeology and Climate in the Lands of the Bible by A. Issar, published by Springer-Verlag in 1990. The enormous quantity and quality of new data added since 1990 called for a thorough update. Another reason for...

Table of Contents:

• Caves, dripstones and soils tell about past climates
• In the beginning
• When Tiamat and Marduk ruled the worlds
• Tiamat and Marduk depart, enter Adam and Eve the tool makers
• Adam and Eve depart, enter Cain the planter and Abel the shepherd
• The Deluge covers the Cradle of Civilization
• From the Tower of Babel to the Laws of Hammurabi
• From Shem the son of Noah to Abraham son of Terah
• The destruction of Sodom and Gemorrah
• Abraham explores the groundwater resources of the Negev
• Egypt: a land like a garden of herbs
• Foreign rulers – The Hyksos. Foreign climate - The Ten Plagues
• Crossing the land of swamps and reeds
• That great and terrible wilderness
• To smite the rock and water shall come out.  .