03-14-2008, 08:29 AM
Marshland is usually not becoming that much dryer when a tsunami pulls the water out sea. Does the eastern Mediterranean have much of a tidal zone?
Although I'm a Christian, I look at the Exodus like a look at Romulus & Remus; a foundation legend. Israeli archaeologists never found signs of a large new group that originated in Egypt (which is what the story claims after all), whereas more tyan enough traces are found of Kanaanite groups, who are all but neglected in the Bible. I've read about this problem before, and I am in favour of a possible conclusion, that this part of Israeli history was written by a dominant group that suppressed other origins.
So maybe there was no tsunami at all?
Although I'm a Christian, I look at the Exodus like a look at Romulus & Remus; a foundation legend. Israeli archaeologists never found signs of a large new group that originated in Egypt (which is what the story claims after all), whereas more tyan enough traces are found of Kanaanite groups, who are all but neglected in the Bible. I've read about this problem before, and I am in favour of a possible conclusion, that this part of Israeli history was written by a dominant group that suppressed other origins.
So maybe there was no tsunami at all?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
