Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Hi,

2010/2/13 Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

> Hi James,
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> I agree with your analysis of their moves. As far as "ending up back in
> Etham" after crossing the sea, I assume that you're referring to Num. 33:8.
> But note that it says "the wilderness of Etham", which may have a wider
> meaning than just Etham as a place. Or it may be a different place. In
> general, I don't think that we have enough information to tell exactly
> where
> they crossed the sea.
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Agreed. But some candidates are better than others. I think at the least we
would expect the ocean bottom and the descent to be amenable to the
crossing. I'm not entirely convinced by the Jabal El Lawz theory with
Nuweiba as the crossing point but one of the extremely attractive features
of it is that there is a land bridge not too deep below the surface of the
sea which goes quite conveniently from Nuweiba to the other side. This is
the place where Ron Wyatt claimed to have found coral coated chariot wheels
at the sea bottom and one gold one that resisted coral formation.

http://www.pilgrimpromo.com/WAR/collage/images/redsea1.jpg

James Christian


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> Yigal Levin
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> From: James Christian [mailto:jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:26 PM
> To: Yigal Levin
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> Subject: Etham
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> Hi,
>
> 2010/2/13 Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
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> The verb $WB is used hundreds of times in the Bible, with several
> different,
> but related, meanings. Its basic meaning is "to turn" (and is related to
> SWB
> with a samekh). It often does mean "to RE-turn", but not always. In Ex.
> 13:20, the Israelites leave Succoth and encamp at Etham. In 14:1-2 God
> orders Moses to tell them to "$wb" and encamp before Pi-Hahiroth between
> Migdol and the sea before Baal-Zephon.
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> My understanding here is that they had made it out of Egypt i.e. to Etham
> and Yhwh tells them to make a strategically suicidal move in order to
> complete the demonstration of his saving power. Inside of going on through
> the desert and to their destination they 'go back' in the sense as you said
> of an about face and go to a geographical area with no escape with the sea
> on one side and the mountains blocking escape on the other. This
> strategical
> move of Yhwh lulls Pharaoh into thinking he's got them trapped and he
> marches his while army of chariots against the Hebrews. Interestingly, when
> the Hebrews cross the Red Sea they end up back in Etham again. How do you
> identify Etham Yigal? The two favourites as I see them are the desert
> immediately after the suez canal or the desert at the top of the gulf of
> Aqaba.
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> James Christian
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