Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Will Wagers <hyle AT airmail.net>]

> [JSafrem] A horde of 2,000,000 stretching out 100-200 km wouldn't 
> have been able to
> see the pillar of fire, both because of the distance of most of the 
> Israelites from
> the pillar and because of the curvature of the earth.
> And the fact remains that when people begin to move, it takes a 
> while for the last
> echelons to begin to move, especially when the column is 100-200 km long.

I don't know how high a piller of fire can get, but a pillar of smoke--
i.e. from a volcano--can reach up to 50,000 feet, which can theoretically
be seen from 275 miles away.


Will Wagers     hyle AT airmail.net             "Reality is the best metaphor."