RE: God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.
August 2, 2011 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2011 at 11:29 am by Hannah.)
Interesting anonymous comment I've just found....
Hopefully science and bible scholars can at some point work together. I too wondered about the Thera eruption preceeding the move to egypt and not exodus. The famine that forced them to move to egypt maybe the one that followed Thera and the idea of a depopulated Goshen from a tidal wave being available for a Pharoah to give to "settlers" parallels what the native american chiefs did in New England when the pilgrims arrived {Influenza had wiped out indian populations prior to their arrival at Plymouth}. Thera was such a big event (changed weather patterns for 5 yr.s (tree ring patterns in Turkey) blocked out most of the sun light for a year) that if for some reason it was not recorded in Eqyptian history it certainly would have left ash in tombs under construction at the time so placing the exact time with the very accurate egyptian chronology would not be difficult if someone would only do it (i.e. look for the ash particles). Thera is not the tower of smoke and flame of exodus as it's geography is wrong in addition to the wide timing problem. However there is a line of a dozen volcano's from Northern Israel to Turkey that align exactly with the path of exodus.If someone would do a PHD thesis on at least placing Thera's eruption in the Egyptian time table it would sure be a service to our understanding. Once that is done dendrology of tree rings from wood from coffins and other grave goods would give us a good idea of the environmental impact. The problems posed are far from insurmountable.
Hopefully science and bible scholars can at some point work together. I too wondered about the Thera eruption preceeding the move to egypt and not exodus. The famine that forced them to move to egypt maybe the one that followed Thera and the idea of a depopulated Goshen from a tidal wave being available for a Pharoah to give to "settlers" parallels what the native american chiefs did in New England when the pilgrims arrived {Influenza had wiped out indian populations prior to their arrival at Plymouth}. Thera was such a big event (changed weather patterns for 5 yr.s (tree ring patterns in Turkey) blocked out most of the sun light for a year) that if for some reason it was not recorded in Eqyptian history it certainly would have left ash in tombs under construction at the time so placing the exact time with the very accurate egyptian chronology would not be difficult if someone would only do it (i.e. look for the ash particles). Thera is not the tower of smoke and flame of exodus as it's geography is wrong in addition to the wide timing problem. However there is a line of a dozen volcano's from Northern Israel to Turkey that align exactly with the path of exodus.If someone would do a PHD thesis on at least placing Thera's eruption in the Egyptian time table it would sure be a service to our understanding. Once that is done dendrology of tree rings from wood from coffins and other grave goods would give us a good idea of the environmental impact. The problems posed are far from insurmountable.
