# Did effects of the changes in climate as the glaciers receded result in highly distorted biblical accounts in the book of Genesis?
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**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246 "2026-01-31T21:28:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/41 "2026-02-01T23:07:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> plagues of frogs
The Talmudic interpretation is that it was actually just one really big frog.
> **[Frog or Frogs? | Sephardic U](https://sephardicu.com/midrash/frog-or-frogs/)**
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> Messianic Wars in Midrash – Parashat VaEra In Exodus 8:2 we read of the second plague of Egypt, frogs: ותעל הצפרדע ותכס את ארץ מצרים. The literal translation of these words is: The frog \[singular\] came up and covered the land of Egypt. The use of the...
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/42 "2026-02-01T23:25:23Z")
So, they were made to toad the line?
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/43 "2026-02-02T01:44:38Z")
Silly. They Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/44 "2026-02-02T03:01:56Z")
That is possibly my all time favorite Talmudic teaching.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/45 "2026-02-02T03:03:19Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> That is possibly my all time favorite Talmudic teaching
I haven’t read much Talmud just yet (I tried joining a Daf Yomi program, but right now they’re on the tractates about the minutiae of sacrificial offerings, which is an absolute slog), but the Oven of Akhnai story is probably my favorite that I’ve learned so far.
> **[The Oven of Akhnai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai)**
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> The Oven of Akhnai is a Talmudic story found in Bava Metzia 59a-b which is set around the early 2nd century CE. The story concerns a debate which was held over the halakhic status of a new type of oven. In the course of the rabbinic disagreement, the story expresses differing views of the nature of law and authority, concerns over a fractured and divisive community, and the issue of harming another person through words and actions.
> The story according to the Talmud goes as follows:
> A new type o...
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-effects-of-the-changes-in-climate-as-the-glaciers-receded-result-in-highly-distorted-biblical-accounts-in-the-book-of-genesis/1027246/46 "2026-02-02T03:09:16Z")
That’s also a classic. I occasionally look on on the Daf Yomi but not consistently. TIL that black pudding is arguably kosher, as if you cook the blood until it’s congealed the prohibition against eating blood may not apply. I do not intend to personally make use of this leniency in the foreseeable future.
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