摘要
THERE are the clans of Noah’s sons,according to their lines of descent,within their nations.From these nations spread out over the earth after the flood,"is how Genesis concludes the story of Noah’s ark.Many countries have similar legends of how early ancestors,when threatened by disasters,dispersed to places around the world,and how after this parting of the ways,as told in the story of
THERE are the clans of Noah＇s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these nations spread out over the earth after the flood,＂ is how Genesis concludes the story of Noah＇s ark. Many countries have similar legends of how early ancestors, when threatened by disasters, dispersed to places around the world, and how after this parting of the ways, as told in the story of the Tower of Babel, there occurred huge differences of lan- guage and lifestyle.
