A New Theory of the Earth the flood. He asserted that the Earth was originally a comet, which God formed from its initial "chaos and void" into a habitable planet. He also argued that the flood itself was caused when the Earth passed through the tail of a comet, which, it was known by that time, are composed largely of water. His analysis was very detailed, and similar ideas were promoted in the 1960s by other creationists postulating causes for the global flood, along with similarity to the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky. However, many of them are in direct conflict with contemporary scientific understandings; and comets
A Horse Walks into a Bar true master – a Lenny Bruce, a Franz Kafka – could dream of replicating". The translation won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, with Grossman and Cohen sharing the £50,000 (US$) prize winnings. The award was shared in accordance with the altered rules of the prize, which grant equal credit to the author and the translator. A Horse Walks into a Bar A Horse Walks into a Bar () is a novel by Israeli author David Grossman. First published in Hebrew in 2014 by Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad as , the book was translated into English by Jessica Cohen, and published in