
Episode 294: Did Noah’s Flood Really Happen with Dr. John Walton
The Holy Post
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All the World Comes to Joseph for Food
There are many places in the old testament where that precise kind of language is used, universalistic to describe something which they clearly knew was not universa. We have cases like genesis forty one, 57, all the world came to joseph for food. Really, how literal do you read thatn this kind of relates to the book you wrote on the conquest? There's very hyperbolica ases used, scribing every everyone was wiped out. You could do that with lamentations two 22 i, where it's talking about that destruction in the past and talking about, no one survived. Well, we know there was an exileananyoe, all survives. So that idea
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