Massacre of the Innocents

[Amarok]

Homer wrote that it took Ulysses 10 years to travel essentially 600 miles (by boat I may add).

Homer wrote a lot of nonsense 

Let see the journey from Egypt took Moses 40 years to go something like 250 miles.

Then Moses had no sense of direction because their is no way it took 40 years 

But two years to travel from Iraq/Iran to Jerusalem is a somehow a bridge too far.

Considering the Silk Road yes