[grania]

That particular eruption would also explain the strange natural events on Moses’ journey, according to some.

[Mercat]

Reading new American bible (awesome) exodus now.

[SunkenCiv]

something like both sides of that one:

Viewer Beware: The Exodus Decoded [ Jacobovici response to BAR review]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1693241/posts

[Verginius Rufus]

If the date in the 1600s is correct, the eruption was probably long before Moses was born.

I don't know if I buy this attempt to blame the eruption on the bean weevils...sounds like an effort to shift the blame from the real culprits, George W. Bush's ancestors.

[nonsporting]

That...would also explain the strange natural events on Moses' journey.

The Bible makes it clear that these were supernatural events. To wit: the angel of death killed only the fist born of those who did not smear the blood of the slaughtered lamb on the door posts and lintel on their house. Volcanic upheavals are not so selective.

These events foretold the death of the real Passover lamb, Jeaus Christ, who was slain at even on the day of preparation which is when the lamb is to be slaughtered for the Passover, the high sabbath which started at sundown on the day of the crucifixion.

[maine-iac7]

according to Woods Hole Scientists =

and quite plausible -

But then, doesn’t God use his own tools to ‘work his mysterious ways?’