Theory: Why The Exodus Myth Exists

Sinai, Gulf of Aqaba, Arabia ... you mean to tell us they trekked all that distance in the first couple of days out of the Nile Delta? Are you saying that "Exodus" means "a marathon foot race" by hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children ... all ages ... weighed down with household goods and the gold and silver pillaged from their former masters?Etham, their first stop out of the Lands of Goshen was "in the edge of the wilderness" or obviously "where cultivatible land ends" with regard to the fertile delta's northeastern perimeter with the desert near Seba Biar, or Seven Wells, about three miles from the western side of the Gulf of Suez in ancient times, which is about 35 miles northward of the present-day head of the gulf. This seems reasonable for a couple of days of fast-paced walking.Within a very short time out of Etham, three or four verses, Yah orders a turn-about to set up an ambush for the pharoah who once again is in defiance of His will. In Exodus 14:2, Moshe was instructed to "turn back" to Pi-hahiroth which lay between the citadel of Migdol and the ancient head of the Red Sea with Baalzephon (lord of the North) on the opposite shore (obvious by its name). Apparently all these formerly important places disappeared from the map due to the fact that millennia of desert winds have blown sands into the VERY SHALLOW, ancient head of the Red Sea obliterating the westernmost 30 to 40 miles of the sea since the tale was written. This was a very, very windy place according to Ex. 14:21. Come to think of it, seems like walking into such a strong "east wind" would have made rapid progress to Aqaba even more difficult.So, you fellows who want to find the crossing place (if in fact there were such a crossing place in the "Red Sea" rather than the "Sea of Reeds") should be looking somewhere along the Suez Canal about 35 miles or so westward of the present day head of the Gulf of Suez.Peace. AbThis message has been edited by Abshalom, 06-04-2004 02:29 PM

Hydarnes:Please convey my best wishes to your brother, Lysimachus for a speedy and full recovery from his serious injury. I hope with a successful surgery and good physical therapy, Lysimchus will be back up and at them hiking and enjoying life with his family and friends.Peace. Ab.

Back at Message 196, Willowtree notes, "This means there were a little less/little more (than 605,550 males 20 years and older) the year before when they departed Egpyt."Actually, Exodus 38:26 puts the number of males "twenty years old and up" at 605,550 for purposes of the assessment to pay for the tabernacle about 7 months earlier than the divinely required census data at Numbers 1:46 where the exact same figure is given for all males aged 20 years and up.You know something miraculously divine is happening when, out of a group of 605,550 men of various ages and states of health, not one individual who dies is not immediately replaced by another just turning twenty.What a story!Peace. Ab.