and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land went under. and 400 feet below the surface, ballard believes he s found proof of that catastrophic event. and i love it. i love it. i love it, i love it. i love it. they unearthed an ancient shoreline. we have actually dated it about 5,000 b.c. and that is about the time that the bible says noah and the great flood happened. exactly. i mean, wow. so it nailed it. ballard and other who is agree with the so-called black sea theory believe the survivors of this traumatic event passed the story down from generation to generation and eventually inspired the biblical account. here s the problem, when people read the story, they say, well did it cover the whole planet in water? no, but it covered their world. so that explains the stories that were handed down.
muslims read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year. to this day, the story is commemorated by muslims all over the world on a holiday called aid ah atta. the hassan family are american muslims living in new jersey. one son, youssef, is about the same age abraham s son would have been, and he s trying to imagine how he would have felt. he was probably extremely scared at what was going to happen and he was very worried for his dad because he knew his dad was going through a long like trouble just getting over the fact he had to kill his son. i m sure he understood it coming from a higher power. for jews and christians, the story of what happened next is the same. abraham s faith was absolute. he didn t argue with god. he tied up his son and laid him on the rock and then he drew his knife.
you might imagine there to be, deserts, pyramids, and of course camels, even though no one is quite sure when camels first came to egypt. oh, my goodness, there they are. we have two of our camels right there. see the camel? i want a camel. can i give him a kiss? he won t bite my face off? those are serious teeth in there. they can clamp down. let me see. let me see your teeth. the performance vividly captures the sweeping and melodramatic twists of faith of joseph s story in the bible. he goes from being an egyptian slave and prisoner to the pharaoh s second in command. i hereby put you in charge of the entire land of egypt. that s because he correctly interprets the pharaoh s dream, and thus saves egypt from a devastating famine. and being a man of god, he forgives the brothers who left
to this day, the story is commemorated by muslims all over the world on a holiday called aid ah atta. the hassan family are american muslims living in new jersey. one son, youssef, is about the same age abraham s son would have been, and he s trying to imagine how he would have felt. he was probably extremely scared at what was going to happen and he was very worried for his dad because he knew his dad was going through a long trouble just getting over the fact he had to kill his son. i m sure he snoods it coming from a higher power. for jews and christians, the story of what happened next was the same. abraham s faith was absolute. he didn t argue with god. he tied up his son and laid him on the rock and then he drew his knife. as the story goes, abraham literally lifts the knife before god says to him, abraham,
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