Reasons Why Mt. Cudi Is The Correct Mountain Of Noah
Genesis 8:4 states that "the Ark came to rest upon the mountains of Urartu" The southern boundary of ancient Urartu included Mt. Cudi. An ancient Jewish commentary on Genesis, Targum Jonathan made the point that the plural mountains meant there was a twin peak structure at the mountain of Noah. He placed the site as being "on the mountains of Qardo," a local area south of Lake Van.
The opinion of Professor Hilprecht in 1910 was that Jebel Judi was the correct mountain. It was called Mt. Nisir in the time of King Ashurbanipal (883-859 BC) and later designated Mt. Nipir by King Sennacherib who wrote that the villages on it were "from days of old." He took a plank from the Ark back to Nineveh.
Berossus in the 3rd Century BC wrote that part of the ship still survived in his day and people would carry off pieces of pitch as amulets. Nicholas of Damascus also makes the same point that the remains were a great while preserved. These ancient observations argue for a low altitude under 10,000 feet.
The story of the monk St. Jacob of Nisibis who climbed the mountain of Noah in the 4th Century and obtained a piece of Ark wood from allegedly an angel tends to confirm Mt. Cudi as the true site since Nisibis is close to it.
Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis in the 4th Century wrote that the site at the mountain of the Gordynenns as described by Berossus still had "remains of Noah's Ark" which means they were available for viewing, hence at a lower altitude not always snow covered.
Abbot Aphni-MARAN of the Nestorian Church built a monastery on the mountains of Kardo, Gebel Al-Cudi about 625 A.D. which was probably a memorial to Noah on the top of Mt. Cudi. Eutychius, Bishop of Alexandria in the 9th Century wrote that "the Ark rested on the mountains of Urartu, that is Jabal Judi near Mosul." The historian Elmacin recorded in the 13th Century that in the 7th Century the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius had climbed Jabal Judi in order to see the place where the Ark had landed.
The historian Benjamin of Tudela in the 12th Century wrote that "I traveled two days to Jezireh BenOmar (modern Cizre), an island in the Tigris, at the foot of Mt. Ararat...on which the Ark of Noah rested. Omar Ben al-Khatab removed the Ark from the summit of the two mountains and made a mosque of it." Here Cudi is obviously meant but termed Ararat, a designation that has led to much error.
About the years 1820-30 Claudius Rich, the British Consul in Baghdad was traveling near Mt. Cudi and was told by a Kurdish Chief named Hussein that he had seen remnants of a large vessel and foot long metal spikes on the top of the mountain.
During the years 1835-39 General Helmut von Moltke visited the area and commented that the D'chudi mountains were where Noah had landed.
In the year 1953 a European geologist went to Mt. Cudi and at the Ark site found some wood/pitch remnants in the ground which were radiocarbon dated and found to be in age about 4500 B.C.
The Hypoxia Equation is solved on Mt. Cudi with its elevation of about 7,000 Feet. Animals awakening from a hibernation in oxygen deprivation would be able to adapt easily.
Josephus in his history written 2000 years ago made a significant comment that after the Ark landed, some persons were reluctant to come down from the Mount onto the Mesopotamia plain to settle because of fears of another Flood. This clearly implies the important topographical point that the Mt. Of Noah is at a "juncture zone," which is also quite true of Mt. Cudi but not of the great Ararat.
The name CUDI seems, to be a paleo-Hebrew word YE-Hudah meaning May God Be Praised. When Noah landed after his long voyage he probably said, "Praise God" and the term was applied to the mountain.
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