Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Marianne:

If as you claim below, Exodus mentions phenomena consistant with the Theran 
eruption, and those phenomena were also connected timewise with Ahmoses' 
attack on the Hyksos' strongholds, you have just made my point that the 
Exodus under Moses occured under the last or next to last Hyksos pharaoh 
(next to last, if the pharaoh of the Exodus was killed as mentioned in 
Exodus, and his successor ruled for only a short period before being 
expelled).

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: MarianneLuban AT aol.com

> In a message dated 8/21/2004 10:02:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> Banyai AT t-online.de writes:
> 
> 
> > I suppose you miss the point Marianne. You use the stratum where the 
> > Theran 
> > pumice was found as a marker for the date as the eruption took place
> 
> No.  I am no vulcanologist.  I do not place the eruption of Thera at all.  
> Don't confuse me with Manfred Bietak.  I have used the eruption as a 
> "marker" 
> for nothing.  The only thing I did in my book was discuss the theories of 
> others 
> as to whether this "tempest" described at Karnak by Ahmose (and also hinted 
> at by the pRhind when the onslaught of the Hyksos strongholds took place) 
> can 
> have had anything to do with the final eruption of Thera in antiquity--and 
> the 
> phenomena described in the BOE.  Some say "yes"--others "no".  It has 
> become 
> an ongoing debate in the journals.  I tend to side with the "yes" 
> contingent--because I have faith that the Torah would not describe things 
> that seem so 
> connected with a natural disaster for no reason at all.  Hail, raining soot 
> and 
> darkness for three days don't happen every day in Egypt.
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