Posted on 12/16/2006 4:25:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Rabbi S. David Sperling, isn't certain that Moses even existed or, if he did, whether the Bible provides much reliable information about him. Sperling contends that if traditional accounts of the origins of Judaism had not recorded a founder, "analogy would have required postulating him; and that is probably what happened" when ancients wrote the Bible... The introduction to Moses' life from another writer says "we cannot really reconstruct a biography of Moses. We cannot even be sure that Moses was a historical character." ...Conservative Judaism's official Torah commentary (2001) states that what should concern Jews is "not when, or even if, Moses lived, but what his life conveys in Israel's saga." It calls Moses a "folkloristic, national hero." This fading Moses, of course, departs radically from long-standing tradition. The "13 Principles" of the revered 12th-century sage Maimonides, for example, insisted that Moses lived as Judaism's supreme prophet through whom God gave the Torah. And the Book of Exodus, of course, recounts Moses' career in considerable detail... Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York's Yeshiva University... observes that liberals hold the biblical text "doubted until independently proven true," while for fellow traditionalists "it is true unless conclusively disproved."
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I have also thought that the 1450 destruction of the Minoans may have been part of crop failures and other disruptions by the vulcanism I want more information on. This would have caused freebooting and invasions by hungry people.
I have some info in a book, I'll go see if I can dig it out.
New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages 279-289 | 13 July 1997 | Gregory A. Zielinski, Mark S. Germani
Posted on 07/29/2004 3:25:45 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1180724/posts
I picked up a video at the library on the Exodus. It was pretty stunning. The thesis of this was that the parting of the sea actually was on the other side of Saudi Arabia.
It also showed some underwater photography of chariot wreckage and from the wheel design it could be dated back to Moses time. Most of the wheels where encrusted with coral but there was one that was brass plated that was very well preserved.
This is all in Mussie land so it is unlikely that permission will ever be granted to examine it closer. Probably if you picked anything up from under the sea you'd be shot immediately or worse.
Also the underwater geography make it so that there is a shallow 'walkway' exactly where you could walk across. Also the description of the land fits the bible to a tee.
I guess it is obvious that I thought it was convincing.
It also showed some underwater photography of chariot wreckage and from the wheel design it could be dated back to Moses time. Most of the wheels where encrusted with coral but there was one that was brass plated that was very well preserved.The brass plated one was a replica, purpose-built for the show. Think about the coral formations -- the claim is that just the wheels and axle survived, set on one end, while the body of the chariots rotted away, and then got covered in coral.
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