In the mid-fifth century BC, the Father of History Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus visited Tyre, spoke to a priest, and learned that the town and the temple of Melqart were, at that time, believed to be 2,300 years old. In other words, the city was founded in the twenty-eighth century BC, prior to the biblical date of the Flood ~2350 BC.
Herodotus does not mention a world-wide flood, but he would have known of it as he systematically gathered history from multiple cultures. It is likely he saw no reason to report the histories and wisdom of “the world that then was” which was already preserved through the Flood in vaults or on the ark, then gathered in libraries available to Herodotus and other sages.
In support of this consideration, Herodotus likewise does not give an account of Assyria’s origin or of the history of the Semites in Mesopotamia. It’s as if he consigns these records to the same category as known history in the collected works of the sages. Instead, Herodotus’ account most evidently picks up Japhethite / European history where the holy scriptures drops it to focus on the Hebrew nation, immediately after the dispersal of nations from Babel.
Herodotus reports that the Phoenicians / Canaanites had “recently come from that which is called the Erythraian Sea / Persian Gulf to this of ours / Mediterranean Sea, and having settled in the coastland where they continue even now to dwell, set themselves forthwith to make long voyages by sea.”
This account provides a reliable “absolute” vs “relative” date for this event as occurring during early emigration from the Mesopotamian / Land between Two Rivers and development into distinct people groups.
“And conveying merchandise of Egypt and of Assyria…”
This confirms the above date being after Asshur separated from Nimrod at Babylon and started his Assyrian Empire.
“they arrived at other places…”
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