God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

BH....references to yahweh being a volcano run all the way through the Bible. Once you have volcano in mind, verses describing yahweh make sense. For example, 'His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.' Rev 1:14. When you have the idea he's a volcano in mind, that verse starts to paint a different picture. Even after the Hebrews left Mount Sinai, their ideas of things like hell were set in stone. That explains why Jesus uses the term 'lake of fire' despite never having seen the volcano.

The Minoans had advance notice of the Santorini expolsion. No bodies have been found by archeologists. It sounds as though there was an Exodus in Greece. Hundreds of thousands of people migrating to Turkey and Egypt to escape the forthcoming eruption. I read that the Sea Peoples (whose origins have never been established) imvaded Egypt during this time but were subordinated by the Egyptians. That certainly makes sense doesn't it? A trickle of boats arrive on the shores of Egypt and the Egyptians easily take control. One clan of Sea Peoples is the Habiru, which some experts say is the origin of the Hebrews. So it seems that there were civilisations that existed prior to Exodus but which left no evidence afterwards and one civilisation that existed afterwards but that left no prior evidence. For me, the dots point to a masse exodus of refugees leaving Greece and arriving partly in Egypt where they were at first subordinated (not necessarily enslaved but maybe not as free as they would have liked......refugee status). Maybe a month or two more passed before the volcano finalled blew and the ten plagues occured during the aftermath, making the Pharoah believe it was caused due to him mistreating his new 'captives' and setting them free. They, this collection of people from differing backgrounds, leave Egypt when they get their chance and, due to seismic events in the area, a tsunami (or alteration in plates causing sea levels to change) exposes a crossing over sea. Then, in the distance, a plume of smoke can be seen during the day and a plume of fire at night, leading the way. Light at the end of the tunnel! Moses, who escaped Egypt along with the refugees due to having commited murder and being on the run, decided to be the leader of the group. On seeing the refugees humbleness in the face of the volcano, he decided they should make the volcano their one and only god. He took it upon himself, wanting to come across as very brave and important, to ascend the mountain of god and pretend to communicate with the new deity. After a long time, as it was hard getting the rules right, he came back down to find the pagan refugees worshipping a golden calf they'd made. In a fit of rage he smashed the set of rules he spent ages coming up with and made lots of threats and killed off a load of dissenters. That made everyone stop and take notice so, feeling important again, he went back up and re-wrote the rules making sure one of them was 'You must not worship any other gods'. That way, he could be in control of the people. Having one god also worked well at creating harmony amongst the people, who all had different gods before. It was like a New World Order with a one world false religion. The volcano worked extremely well at insiring piety in the people due to fear and awe. Due to the lack of ancestry to mention, or maybe due to wanting to make the past sound more fitting to the present and future, a fake family background was invented. This made the people, in time, believe they were more special than they actually were. Not having their own land was also something that needed addressing. As there was no one piece of land they could ever go back to, a home for the future had to be organised. Despite this chosen land being occupied by several communities of people already, a story was written, supposedly by god, that would lay claim to said land. As they were not real nomads but refugees, having a land to call your own was very important. Moses writes the Pentateuch based around the events of the time of the Exodus and the mountain of god.

Exodus Decoded....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBvvDl25F4

Thera.....the fact the Minoans left no evidence of their existence after the eruption does not mean they did not exist after it. That is of course the reverse scenario as for the Hebrews. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBC-TFtxHw

p.s. would this explain why the Bible was written in Greek?