God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

My take.........the Hebrews left Egypt during the aftermath of the Santorini volcanic explosion

Except 200 years of excavations in Egypt has failed to turn up any evidence that they were ever in Egypt.


Period.

The ten plagues of Egypt happening around the time of the Santorini volcanic eruption and being documented in the Bible is pretty good proof of them having been in Egypt around 1500 BC. As I said in my post, maybe the Hebrew people only became a clan when they fled Egypt, so there would be nothing 'Hebrew' to find in Egypt to prove they were ever there. Lack of physical evidence is not proof of non-existence. Maybe Moses created the ancestral past in Genesis so the motley crew that fled Egypt could feel, in time, they were special....so special they were chosen by god.

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11 The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

1 Kings 19

See, you can make it say whatever you like.

Not sure what your point is. This verse is complete poetic licence. It doesn't reveal anything.

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Some revealing verses...

Deuteronomy 9:21 (King James Version)

21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

'brook'? Lava river perhaps? The golden calf had been constructed because Moses took so long on the mountain getting the ten commandments. When he eventually came back down he found the Hebrews had constructed a golden calf to worship.....a pagan idol. This is a bit odd because Hebrews were meant to be monotheistic already but obviously not. Funnily enough, the Minoans of Crete (devasted in Santorini eruption) also worshipped bulls and made animal sacrifices using horn symbolism (tabernacle has horns on it). This info also points to the possibility the Hebrews were just a collection of refugees who only became monotheistic when Moses came up with the ten commandments and told everyone that god was in the volcano.