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The tree rings indicate that there have been worldwide affecting events (some say near extinction events) at 3195BC, 2354BC, 1628BC,1159BC and 540AD, with two smaller events at 207BC and 44BC. Civilizations have risen only to be 'smacked' back down by these catastropic events. For example, I believe 1628BC was the Exodus and 540AD was the beginning of the Dark Ages. The asteroid that struck Iraq in 2354BC probably provided all the imagery for Revelations, etc. (Then of cource, all the water from the ending of the Ice Age did a number too, Noah's Flood?)

Posting ideas like this on FR is like saying "Jesus is Lord" in Pakistan or Saudia Arabia. You got kahunas. Why the date of 1628BC for the Exodus? What's your take on Moses?

[blam]

"Why the date of 1628BC for the Exodus? "

That is the date that Santorini/Thera/Akatori volcano blew it's top. It could have provided all the elements described in the bible, plagues, storms, darkness and etc. ('Torch at night staff by day)

Plus, archaeologists have dated charred wheat grains above the Santorini ash layer but below the collapsed walls of Jerico to 1628BC. The Santorini plume would have to be 30 miles high to have been seen in Egypt. The recent Pinatubo (Phillipines) volcano was 26 miles high and it was much, much smaller than Santorini.

The present accepted dating of the Exodus is based on the Egyptian 'Kings List', and more and more people are beginning to recognize errors in that list.

[blam]

"What's your take on Moses?"

I believe Moses was real. Some calculations indicate that he was 80 years old at the beginning of Exodus, which means he didn't wander in the desert for 40 years.
Many are beginning to recognize an error in the translation of the number 40. It should mean 'many.' Notice how reaccuring the number 40 is in biblical writings?

Most of the Jews that left Egypt during the Exodus died inroute.
I also believe Mount Siani(sp) is in Saudia Arabia.