Exodus Egypt

A qood quote about the exodus from Egypt:

“Little dismays me more than movies like "The Ten Commandments" and "Prince of Egypt," Hollywood mythologization of historical events. All of the events of the יציאה recorded in Tana"kh were real events resulting from natural causes whose miracle, while genuine, lay not in the supernatural world of silly superstitions but in the Divine chronological pre-ordering of naturally-occurring physical phenomena obeying the Omni-scient's perfect laws of physics, mathematics and logic. Dating the יציאה has archaeologists arguing in which millennium it occurred, recognizing that their estimates can be off by centuries, while ignoring entirely a date which coincides within about 50-100 years of their best estimate of both the יציאה and the greatest volcanic eruption in all the annals of history — at Santorin in the Mediterranean Sea.

The world's leading vulcanologists confirm that the most momentous volcanic eruption ever to have occurred on earth exploded on Santorini / Thera circa 1450 BCE ("In Search of Lost Worlds, Atlantis: The Mystery of the Minoans," [the realPhilistines, pre-dating, and entirely unrelated to, Arabs] Discovery Channel, Videofilm International 1988; also "Calypso's Search for Atlantis," Part 2, documentary video, 1978, Cousteau Society & KCET Los Angeles and Amaya Distr.). Other evidence points to circa 1453 BCE as the most likely date of the יציאה ("The Chronology of the Tana"kh from the 'Big Bang'"). 1453 BCE is also as good an estimate for the eruption at Santorini as any scientist can defend.

The Santorini eruption caused both a suffocating cloud of ash which darkened the Mediterranean lands, and a tsunami over 350 feet high which hit the northern coast of Egypt — exactly where, and when, theיציאה occurred. Such an ash cloud and tsunami would have set into motion the first nine of the chain of events we now call the 10 plagues.

The sea didn't stand up in great walls of water on each side as the Hebrews walked between them as depicted in the Charleton Heston movie. Rather, Torâh describes the two bodies of water serving as a "wall" (i.e., barrier) between the Hebrews and the Egyptians; exactly the fitting description if, for example, the Hebrews escape route were along the narrow strip of land north of Sabkhat El Bardawil — with the Mediterranean acting as a wall against Egyptian attack from the north and Sabkhat El Bardawil acting as a wall against Egyptian attack from the south. The Egyptians had no choice but to pursue along that narrow strip — dry land which was about to be inundated by a 350 foot high tsunami, a wave of water the height of a 35-story building! The portion of the tsunami headed for the Delta would have just cleared the island of Crete, acting as a lens to focus and magnify the tsunami traveling unimpeded to the Delta.”

Quote: The Mirrored Sphinxes]