“In contrast, the historical
material we have from antiquity supporting the Mt. Cudi site
is, at best, secondhand, and should not be given the same weight
as the firsthand testimonies we have regarding Mt. Ararat.”
Richard
Lanser, Bible & Spade Vol. 19 No. 4
Zero commentators or historians in the
literature accounts are eyewitnesses to their repeated second-hand,
third-hand, or many-generations later comments