Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 25/01/2004 03:24, Dora Smith wrote:

> Dug 9 meters below sea level?!!
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> Boy, your memory of what those Israelites did to get across that sea is sure
> SPECIFIC!
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> Conservative efforts to justify that story get better all the time.  You
> made my afternoon.
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Just to clarify, I was referring to the efforts not of  the Israelites 
but of the 19th century canal builders.

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> > On 23/01/2004 16:30, Walter R. Mattfeld wrote:
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> > > ... It proved a
> > > hard nut to crack for the builders of the canal under deLesseps, who used
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> > > 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.
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