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Posted on 05/30/2003 11:32:54 AM PDT by blam
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Desert of Wandering: ...There are autochthonous Arab traditions about the wandering tribes led by Mosaikaia, his brother Arnran, and his sister Zeripha. These traditions have not been borrowed from the Old Testament or rabbinical tradition. From the Bible and Midrashim, the Arabs culled much of the content of the Koran, but they did not realize that their traditions about Mosaikaia (and the catastrophe that took place in his time) are of independent origin, though referring to the same persons and events. (I. Velikovsky)
I have always understood Moses to be Egyptian. It may have had a play on words in Hebrew, but its Egyptian.
It might have been my argument. I believe that Thera was too early, and was the time of the unsettled Hyksos period. I believe that Moses was mid 18th Dynasty around 1450 to 1500 BC. Somewhere in that period Etna had a major eruption. My theory is that volcanic ask drifted over Africa, fell in the southern Nile, flowed into the area of the rulers, caused chemical changes in the river a physteria, death of fish, no frog eggs eaten, plague of frogs and flies, lesions on skin from toxic water, etc. I think the crossing of the Red Sea, reed sea, could have been caused by magma inflation under the ground raising the marsh bed. Remember the pillar of fire by night and smoke by day. When the magma chamber emptied, the land subsided, the water returned and persuers were drowned. Also, I think that anyone as powerful as Ramasees would have squashed Moses like a bug. Also there are years given in the bible from the age of Abraham to the Exodus, and from Exodus to the temple, and they do not align with Ramasees period. Some day I may write a historical novel with that plot line. Anyway, that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Morning gleeaikin. Prayers up all is well with you and yours.
I basically agree with the chronology (not nexessarily with the Reed sea,etc., because that is just supposition and I just don’t plain know).
However, my biggest beef with many Egyptologists is that while the know there are discrepancies between dating per the Pentateuch and dating per Egyptian dynasties, the always make the assumption that the Egyptian version is correct, whereas there is plenty of evidence tha we don’t yet have Egyptian timelines nailed down yet.
And yes, I believe that there is good evidence that it was the Hyksos who took advantage of a situation that has puzzled Egyptologists for a,LNG time.
Oh yes, indeedy if Rameses had been the king, he would also would have been the chief bug squasher. I havee my doubts that he would have been stupid enough to follow the Israelites into what was clearly a trap.
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