Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <cctr114 AT its.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Walter Mattfeld wrote:-

>Exodus tells a story of God feeding his people with quail that fall from the
>skies, perhaps this marker can identify the route of the Israelites ? Every
>year near El Arish quail migrating from Europe fall exhausted from the skies
>in their annual migration to Africa. They alight only near El Arish, not the
>shores of the Red Sea, and the migration occurs only in the Autumn, not in
>the Spring, as portrayed in the Exodus narrative (Why did the biblical
>narrator have quail migrating in the spring and not the autumn ?).

Just a simple note of fact. Migratory birds have to go in both directions,
perhaps you just mean they take a different route on the return journey.

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