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To: Renfield

Some have posited the theory that the last eruption brought about the plagues of Egypt detailed in the Book of Exodus.


8 posted on 09/21/2012 8:35:06 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Current thinking puts the massive ancient eruption about 1628 B.C. (based on study of an ice core from Greenland--some of the ash from Thera landed on Greenland). That is much too early for the time of Moses.

Anyway I don't think there were enough frogs on Thera to cause the plague of frogs in Egypt.

9 posted on 09/21/2012 8:44:16 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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