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Author Topic:   Did the Biblical Exodus ever happen?
Coragyps
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Message 31 of 657 (580047)
09-07-2010 12:10 PM
Reply to: Message 29 by frako
09-07-2010 10:27 AM


Re: Calculations. Yay!
They ate manna, not lambs. You need to be figuring how many scale insects need to be making honeydew from how many desert shrubs to feed that many people.

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Coragyps
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Message 76 of 657 (580869)
09-11-2010 10:01 PM
Reply to: Message 75 by Buzsaw
09-11-2010 9:49 PM


Re: Arabia/Midian Evidence
by now, I don't expect some of you members to acknowledge any cited evidence for anything ever supported by evidence relative to the Exodus.
And we, Buz, don't expect you to provide any, either. Wyatt had none. His successors have none. Exodus and Numbers provide a morsel, on a par with the evidence The Two Towers provides for Middle Earth.
Give it a rest until you find something. Anything.

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Coragyps
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Message 111 of 657 (598954)
01-04-2011 12:02 PM
Reply to: Message 106 by Buzsaw
01-04-2011 10:18 AM


Re: Artifact Evidence, Etc
Jewish law required the burial of human waste etc.
And digging thousands of holes for poop out in the desert is going to leave no traces at all? Really, Buz?

"God is Santa Claus for adults."
- Mad Kallie

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Coragyps
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Message 338 of 657 (603253)
02-03-2011 2:23 PM
Reply to: Message 337 by jar
02-03-2011 2:10 PM


Re: where's the wheel?
If, and it is a really big if, the wheel actually even exists.
You doubt the word of a Julliard-trained anaesthisist!!???
[/channeling Kramer]

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Coragyps
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Message 382 of 657 (603689)
02-06-2011 6:36 PM
Reply to: Message 381 by PaulK
02-06-2011 2:43 PM


Re: Buzsaw To All:
it is clear that the worst depth the Israelites would have had to face at the straits of Tiran is about 300m.
Like that was a vast improvement over 800 meters.....

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Coragyps
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Message 534 of 657 (613068)
04-21-2011 1:39 PM
Reply to: Message 533 by Buzsaw
04-21-2011 11:34 AM


Re: Nuweiba Beach A Delta
This is relative to in that the Noaic Flood and the Exodus are like two rooms of a house that stand or fall together if the foundation crumbles.
So why are you still here, Buz? The Fludde and the Exodus have each been debunked about 500 times at EvC. So now you are saying that either of them being debunked would have been plenty?

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Coragyps
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Message 622 of 657 (618168)
06-01-2011 6:25 PM
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06-01-2011 9:27 AM


Re: Mt Sinai
I don't think it's of significance enough to diminish all of the corroborated evidence cited.
Indeed. It's tough to diminish nuthin' much further.

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Coragyps
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Message 634 of 657 (618791)
06-06-2011 6:53 AM
Reply to: Message 633 by Portillo
06-06-2011 4:33 AM


Re: In Regards to Something (like that ..)
Hi, Portillo! Welcome to EvC!
Alot of researchers believe what most ancient texts say, yet sometimes apply different standards to the biblical texts.
Do you have some examples? Take the Iliad, for example: most people that studied it in the 19th century viewed it as pure storytelling. Then, after Troy was excavated, opinion shifted to it being a mixture of fact and fable. No one since 1800 that I am aware of converted to the worship of Poseidon or Zeus because of reading it, though their power is pretty evident from the text.
The Bible, now, gives us some similar stories of battle and intrigue. But the "different standards" that are most commonly applied to these stories are to take them as absolute literal truth. Am I reading you correctly when I take it that you mean the opposite of that? Again, do you have examples?

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Coragyps
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Message 639 of 657 (618936)
06-07-2011 7:28 AM
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06-07-2011 4:10 AM


Re: In Regards to Something (like that ..)
These kind of stories are expected when an historical account becomes mythos.
Totally unlike stories of snakes walking and talking to people, or of womwn turning into salt, or of people being eaten by fish and surviving three days inside them. Those are 100% historical-sounding, right? Do those things happen a lot where you live? They don't so much out here, and we have lots of snakes to attempt conversations with.
Yes, many of the books of the Bible purport to be history. Some of them actually appear to really be history, with variable degrees of accuracy. But, as you can find on various topics here at EvC, it's a pretty shaky excuse for history when there is no external evidence whatever for many of the things described. Where are the ruins of Solomon's great temple? Where did the Hebrews camp out for most of 40 years in the desert?

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