Did the Red Sea Part? No Evidence, Archaeologists Say [NYT celebrates Passover]

NY Times ^ | 4-3-07

[SJackson]

“This is a crisis for Egypt, and Egyptians do not document their crises.”...God documented this one.

See post 8. Egyptians believed it 2,300 year ago.

[ol' hoghead]

“Really, it’s a myth,” Dr. Hawass said of the story of the Exodus,

so says a muslim.

[Enterprise]

I watched most of it, but I was unable to stay and watch the part where they were exploring the area where they believed that the Egyptian soldiers were drowned. Did they find they evidence they were searching for?

[Vinnie]

Boy, the atheists are on a tear this week.

They get a twofer.

[tgambill]

the good news about the agenda of our current “insider” administration, and the “insider” administration in England, is that their expeditious timetable to the NWO; will bring God here quicker and will lead them to their own destruction at the end of the 7 years, once it starts. Never mind explaining this to naysayers, the “proof” will be apparent and will leave no doubt. :)) Parting of the Red Sea will be the last thing they will be trying to explain. lolol...:) hard to explain the coming events when you are running and trying to hide.....

Not far off this time........

[metmom]

Reeds imply swamp. The water deep enough that it needed parting and the Israelites crossed on dry ground. When the water came back the Egyptians were drowned. Kind of hard to do if the water wasn’t at least 6 feet deep. Not likely to be a swamp.

[evangmlw]

I choose to believe God’s word rather than NY Times or any archeologist who dares to contradict Him.

[P-40]

One theory I heard involved a sudden wind event that created a freak tide, or something that effect. I’ve seen northerns blow the water out of the bays; it could have been something like that. And of course the water may have not been deep enough to drown anyone...just over time the retelling of the story involved progressively deeper water.

[metmom]

Ex 14: 21 & 22 Moses stretched his arm over the sea, and the LORD sent a strong east wind that blew all night until there was dry land where the water had been. The sea opened up, and the Israelites walked through on dry land with a wall of water on each side.

Well, there was wind but it doesn't sound quite like a tide.

Ex 14:28 The water came and covered the chariots, the cavalry, and the whole Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them was left alive.

The army was destroyed somehow; it says that they were covered with water. With that many people as witnesses for that recent of an event, it seems unlikely that that kind of embellishment would have been successful. People who knew would have been able to discredit it at the time.

[tgambill]

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/redsea2.htm

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33168

http://firstbaptistchurch2.tripod.com/id34.html

[SunkenCiv]

More anti-Jewish, anti-Bible, anti-western propaganda.

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[P-40]

People who knew would have been able to discredit it at the time.

I don't know. Even in the modern age, urban legends live on even when discredited by the people involved.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Even though there have been topics about this (including a few when Jacobovici did his crockumentary about it a year or so ago), I'm pingin'.

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[Quix]

On that score, he’s a Geraldo class idiot.

Wyatt was it discovered chariot wheels under the sea that were clearly of the design of the Exodus era. I think maybe even the pharoah’s chariot wheel was found—at least there was some high rank wheel supposedly found. I think there are pics available online somewhere.

[metmom]

This is Scripture, though. If you believe that it’s God’s Word and He faithfully recorded it, then the account is as it’s written. If you don’t accept it as true, then I suppose any explanation works. But once you start questioning the veracity of the Bible, then you might as well toss the whole thing.

[ravingnutter]

They found the remains of chariots, human bones, skeletons of horses and cattle covered in coral. They recovered some of the bones and had them tested and they were human. A pillar has also been found on the opposite beach, with an inscription that indicates that this was the crossing point of the Israelites and the mass graveyard of the Egyptian army.

[colorado tanker]

I can’t believe the Slimes used Hawass as their source. He has no objectivity when the subject of Jews living in Egypt and the Exodus intersects with archeology. He’s pretty much a Jew-hater. And a Passover story to boot. Sheesh.

[irishtenor]

***Wouldn’t the more accurate statement be “right now there is no archaeological evidence to support...”?***

Even more accurate, “Wehave no idea what we are talking about, but they pay us to say stuff.”

[Enterprise]

Thanks. It sounded like they were on the right path then. It appears that the mistranslation might be true, that it was not the Red Sea but the Sea of Reeds!

[P-40]

If you don’t accept it as true

It would not be so much the truth of it as it would be the exact details of what happened. There is some latitude there.