God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

Look, Hannah. Exodus isn't the revealed word, and it isn't a historical account. It doesn't have to be one or the other. People are capable of fiction, always have been. It's almost an insult to those people when you assume they just couldn't write fiction. However, if you want the description of god to be a Volcano, that's fine, but source the description of god farther back. Hebrews were Canaanites, they didn't steal pharoah's gold and flee through the Saudi Desert. Mt. Sinai is not somewhere else, etc etc etc.

You don't know for sure it's not got some historical truth in it. You cannot prove it so, according to your strict set of rules, you shouldn't even claim it. Now if I was wanting to get people to sign up to my religion and I wrote a fictious book to do just that, I would miss out a whole load of the Bible. There is too much in there, with weird ficticously unecessary details, for it to have been pure fiction. It also contains things that paint the religion or some of the prophets in a bad light. Two lines in it reveal the fact Moses was a cold blooded and pre-meditated murderer. That fact in no way aides the religion nor encourages people to believe. Why, then, include it? Another example is revealing the theft of the Egyptians' gold. Why include that in a story book? Why make the Hebrews look like thieves when they weren't? Why create the future potential for Egytian retribution? Why paint a very obvious picture of them going from one volcano to the next? Why make it pretty clear in a ficiticous book yahweh was a volcano or volcanoes? Why not start the whole thing off with him being intangible and omnipresent? Why did he only become omnipresent over time? Why say in the Bible that yahweh directed the Hebrews to Saudi (which it does) and say they lived in awful conditons with scorpions and no water, and to say in this story book they were left wandering around for forty years in the wilderness thanks to yahweh? That just makes no sense whatsoever. It's illogical. If the book was written to sell the religion then it fails there badly. Why say yahweh was rubbish at giving directions? Why say he was so mean he let them wander around for forty years? His chosen people too!!! The ones he is said to love so much! It doesn't make sense. What does make sense is that they did go to Saudi because they went towards the plume of smoke by day and fire by night, they did find themselves in shitty surroundings and get stung to death by creatures they'd never seen before, they were awe struck at the sight of their first volcano, Moses' face was bright red and sweaty when he came down from the mount after talking to the lake of fire, they did see other eruptions in the distance and believed they were signs from god of their route (which is why they arrived where they did), yahweh was their first jealous god and therefore the first time they'd ever had only one god, Moses did lead them down a merry path and cause them to wander about for years and die off in old age and exhaustion, they finally find some hospitable land but find it's occupied by other civilisations so create the 'promised land' idea to justify genocide...etc.... This makes perfect sense to me.

Even the way it's written makes it seem like more of a diary of events than a story book. I believe some books were based on diarised real events but were dramatised with divinity and poetic licence, although the latter may have been used in the most part due to the language at the time and the lack of knowledge that would have provided one word rather than many to describe something. Some books, like Genesis, were written completely retrospectively and ficticiously and moulded to fit the dramatised diaries. They filled in the gaps, just like some ficticious verses fill in gaps between truth.

I'll have a closer look later tonight at those two links you posted last night.