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    What specific meal would a person suffering from xylophagia dine on that would have sunk Nuh’s safina?

    Question #97589. Asked by BRY2K. (Jul 16 08 5:10 AM)


    markswood

    		Someone who is xylophagic would eat wood. Nuh is the Islamic name for Noah and safina is a boat or ark.
    The ark was built from wood, some state Gopher wood, although this could be a transcription error from Kopher wood which means bitumenised wood.

    Ref: http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/arkmodel.htm

    Jul 16 08, 5:52 AM
    gentlegiant17

    		Here's my logic chain:

    Xylophagia - eating of wood (xylon=Latin for wood, phagia=Greek for eating).

    Nuh - the Arabic name for Noah.
    Safina - the Arabic name for the ark (btw, sfina=Henrew for ship).

    Thus, the specific meal would be the gopher wood out of which Noah's ark was made - http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Gen/Gen006.html (verse 14).

    Am i on your tracks, Brian?

    Jul 16 08, 6:03 AM

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