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  • From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Thera quote
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:08:20 -0400

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:19:04 -0600 Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
writes:
> On Tuesday 24 August 2004 13:41, Michael Banyai wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Moreover, it is highly unlikely that the Thera cloud
> > > ever reached Egypt--given the counter-clockwise direction of
> winds around
> > > the Mediterranean--and that anyone in Egypt would have been able
> to see
> > > the ash cloud hundreds of miles away no matter how high (the
> earth is
> > > round).
> >
> > This is bogus. First of all have Stanley and Cheng discovered
> volcanic
> > ashes in the delta, which could be C214-dated by the overlaying
> layers, to
> > the period of the Theran eruption. We have the testimony of the
> Balaam
> > inscription (chronologically dependent on the Exodus dating) for
> an
> > independent observation of an eruption-like event. But also the
> Ipuwer
> > papyrus (datable into the 2nd intermediate period - the eruption
> of Thera
> > thus) describes with plenty of detail probably the same.
> >
> > The argument concerning the eruption being unobservable because
> hiding
> > behind the horizon assumes of us to be idiots. It is a typical
> > "Taschenspielertrick".
>
> I don't know what this word means.
> [snip]
>
> --

A "feat of legerdemain", I think.

george
gfsomsel




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