Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 12:41 pm:

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The extent of the Genesis Flood has been vigorously debated by biblical scholars. For those who accept a recent creation week of six literal consecutive, twenty-four-days, a universal Flood is necessary to explain the existence of the geologic column. The thesis of this study is that only the traditional interpretation which posits a literal, universal, world-wide Genesis Flood does full justice to all the relevant biblical data. The author summarizes twenty-two lines of biblical evidence — including terminological, thematic, contextual, grammatical-syntactical, literary-structural, logical-conceptual, theological, canonical, and typological which support the universality of the Genesis Flood.

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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 1:23 pm:

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Scholarly Articles Written by SDA Theologians on Genesis 1-11

First compiled by Warren H. Johns, November 1998. Updated by Jim Gibson, January 2006.
- limited to scholarly, exegetical and theological studies prepared by theologians
- does not include general devotional material or that written by scientists

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Wood, Lynn H. "The Kahun Papyrus and the date of the Twelfth Dynasty", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 99(Oct., 1945):5-9. — This does not deal directly with the chronology of Genesis 11, but it establishes Egyptian chronology on a secure basis, using the Sothic Cycle. Thus the Old Kingdom was said to have begun about 2800 B.C. This being true, the Flood could not possibly have been in 2348 B.C. as proposed by Ussher.

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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 2:13 pm:

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Determining the date of a heliacal rise of Sothis has been shown to be difficult, especially considering the need to know the exact latitude of the observation.[1] Another problem is that because the Egyptian calendar loses one day every four years, a heliacal rise will take place on the same day for four years in a row, and any observation of that rise can date to any of those four years, making the observation not extremely precise.[1]

A number of criticisms have been leveled against the reliability of dating by the Sothic cycle. Some are serious enough to warrant consideration (for example, was the civil calendar unchanged through the thousands of years of Egyptian history?), while others are not (for example, there is no explicit mention of the Sothic cycle in ancient Egyptian writing). Some have recently claimed that the Theran eruption marks the beginning of the XVIII dynasty in Egypt, and because dendrochronologists believe it took place in 1626 BC, that the Sothic cycle is off by 50–80 years. The claim that the Thera eruption is in fact the subject matter of the Tempest Stele of Ahmose I is disputed, and most Egyptologists reject this problem outright. Egypt maintained diplomatic ties with other foreign powers, which allows for comparative chronologies to be made, and it is virtually impossible to move the entire chronology of the Hittites, Mitanni, Assyria, and Babylon earlier by over half a century. Peter James' book Centuries of Darkness (London, 1991: [1]) is a good introduction to attacks on Sothic dating from the perspective of the revisionists.

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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 8:25 pm:

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Lynn Wood Hall & Heritage Museum

Constructed in 1924 and called College Hall, this structure was renamed Lynn Wood Hall in 1945 to honor Lynn H. Wood, president in 1914-15 and 1918-22.

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1910-11 He taught Science, Mathematics and Building Construction at the Foreign Missions Seminary, Washington, D.C. Source #1; Source #2

1912 He helped establish the church in Baltimore, Maryland. Source; my Adventist History blog post.

1913 He was at Union College in Nebraska. Source; The Adventist History blog post.

1914 He was in charge of the Southern Training School, Graysville, Tennessee. Source; The Adventist History blog post.

1915 February 18. A fire occurred in the girls' dorm; two injuries, no loss of life. He reported the incident in the Review and Herald. Source; The Adventist History blog post.

The September 23, 1915 Review and Herald states that he was Educational and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Southern Union Conference.