[aruanan]

Dating the Exodus to roughly 1,500 BC, the two-hour film presented and executive-produced by Hollywood director James Cameron and airing Easter Sunday on Discovery Canada — suggests that the great Santorini volcano caused the Ten Plagues that the Bible says were visited upon the Egyptians and which finally persuaded the pharaoh of the day.

Wasn't the Santorini eruption discussed pretty thoroughly in that book Exodus to Arthur by Mike Baille?

[Conservative Texan Mom]

This would have been the same Santorini eruption that desimated the Minoan Culture on Crete, and wiped out Thera, correct?

[blam]

"Wasn't the Santorini eruption discussed pretty thoroughly in that book Exodus to Arthur by Mike Baille?"

Yes. Very good part of that book. Some Charred wheat and ash from Santorina was found and dated to the correct time, under the collapsed walls of Jerico which the Jews claim to have destroyed after the Exodus.

This account by the director is exactly the account that I embrace even though SunkenCiv has consistently made a ceditable argument against this particular 'story.'

[SunkenCiv]

There was no massive eruption at Santorini in that time frame. The caldera formed about 22,000 years ago, and the only record of an eruption in antiquity is circa 200 BC.

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
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