In a message dated 8/2/2004 8:36:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
segall AT umich.edu writes:
The
accuracy with which the phenomena are described can give some indication
of the accuracy of the rest of the story. In the case of the Exodus, the
phenomena described are sufficiently rare and localized that there is
virtually no possibility they would have been included in the story if the
Exodus did not occur.
Not exactly. Only the "soot" and the "days of darkness" were rare. The
"Green Nile" and the "Red Nile" always occurred at the time of Inundation. These
are easily explained. Pests and pestilences were never rare in Egypt at all.
Also, in the New Kingdom, nearly every "first born son" of pharaoh died
before he could succeed to the throne, many as children. This is documented.
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