Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>]

Dug 9 meters below sea level?!!

Boy, your memory of what those Israelites did to get across that sea is sure
SPECIFIC!

Conservative efforts to justify that story get better all the time.  You
made my afternoon.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com


Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
Cc: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Route of the Exodus (Red Sea Crossing)


> On 23/01/2004 16:30, Walter R. Mattfeld wrote:
>
> >Dear Peter,
> >
> >Thankyou for your most interesting explantion on the term "wall of
water,"
> >(especially Nahum 3:8) suggesting it need not necessarily be as portrayed
in
> >Cecile B. DeMille's Exodus movie with Charlton Heston as Moses (a
stirring
> >movie !).
> >
> >As regards the flat alluvial plain of the Isthmus of Suez, if I recall
> >rightly there is an elevation called Shalluf between the Bitter Lakes and
> >the Bay Clysma sits on. For the Red Sea (Gulf of Suez) to "naturally
flow"
> >into the Bitter Lakes it would have to overcome this barrier. It proved a
> >hard nut to crack for the builders of the canal under deLesseps, who used
a
> >lot of dynamite on it to blast his way through to the Red Sea. ...
> >
> Maybe that is because of the route they took (which had to be nearly
> straight), or because they needed to dig 9 metres below sea level.