God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

It cannot be entirely mythical. The ten plagues of Egypt clearly occured due to the Santorini eruption. They experienced the aftermath of it. They must have been in Egypt to have experienced the fallout but to have not seen the volcano. Saying it's all myth is as bad as a Christian saying it's all the actual word of God. It's more complex than either or.

I disagree. There is no "clearly" about it. It is food for thought, but nothing more. There is another theory that the island of Santorini's destruction due to the volcano led to the myth of Atlantis. There are a lot of points to this story that make sense. However, you can't say that is "clearly" the case, because clear implies it is obvious. There is nothing obvious about the Bible. It may not be myth from front to back, but it is "clearly" the work of hearsay. You do realize that there was a huge gap between the events in the Bible, the life of Jesus and the writing of the Bible, right? Have you ever played that game "telephone" where someone whispers something in another's ear and that continues down a line of people until the last person says it loud? Nearly every time the end result is different than the initial whispered sweet nothing.

You're right. I shouldn't have used the word 'clearly'. The ten plagues in the Bible are a clear indicator that the Hebrews were in Egypt during or soon after the Santorini eruption and the Santorini eruption lends weight to the ten plagues story. They coroborate each other. Yes, I am well aware the books were written later, Genesis being written retrospectively and being entirely fictional. There is a vein of truth in the early OT though and it's important we do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have more time to do some actual research. Night night everyone.