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GenesisNemesis · 08-17-2006, 06:02 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Decoded

Sounds somewhat interesting... :huh:

GenesisNemesis · 08-17-2006, 08:14 PM

moderaters can remove this post because I saw another post like this one (I hate it when that happens)

jayh · 08-18-2006, 04:40 AM

I don't know where the other one is.

This seems to suffer from the frequent flaw of these documentaries: the assumption that all the events described need to be explained as historically having happened together, hence we require this volcanic eruption to 'explain' all the plague and other events.

These ancient stories were collected years later. the legends about different things get mixed up in time and space, and often get arranged as happening to a single hero (and or his people) when in the real world, to the extent they are true at all, there is no reason to connect them.

As has been pointed out in The Bible Unearthed and other places, famines in Canaan happened more than once, with people fleeing to Egypt, where they would wear out their welcome and have to leave. Exodus has all the marks of being an anthology assembled years later from a whole potpouri of tribal memories

Cynthia of Syracuse · 08-18-2006, 06:37 AM

Moving to BC&H.

EthnAlln · 08-18-2006, 07:25 AM

I just saw a spot announcement on the History Channel (I'm wasting a beautiful Friday morning watching three hours on the Nazi SS). I don't trust the "history" presented on this channel. It's primary aim is to secure viewers and sell advertising. You can bet that the evidence will be sanitized, polished, and photographed from an angle that makes the Exodus seem historical. Better-informed archaeologists will be allowed to face the camera and deny the Exodus, but they won't be given the last word, and they'll be sandwiched between speakers who will be allowed to present what appears to be physical evidence. It's an old trick: Give one side impressive graphics; make the other side issue a bald statement with no time to present the evidence.

Amaleq13 · 08-18-2006, 07:36 AM

The first thread on this subject is here and a subsequent thread is here so I'm closing this one.

08-17-2006, 06:02 PM	#1
GenesisNemesis Contributor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A pale blue oblate spheroid. Posts: 20,351	Exodus Decoded: a documentary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Decoded Sounds somewhat interesting... :huh:

08-18-2006, 06:37 AM	#4
Cynthia of Syracuse Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Vermont, USA Posts: 2,821	Mod note Moving to BC&H.

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08-17-2006, 08:14 PM	#2
GenesisNemesis Contributor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A pale blue oblate spheroid. Posts: 20,351	moderaters can remove this post because I saw another post like this one (I hate it when that happens)

08-18-2006, 04:40 AM	#3
jayh Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 4,606	I don't know where the other one is. This seems to suffer from the frequent flaw of these documentaries: the assumption that all the events described need to be explained as historically having happened together, hence we require this volcanic eruption to 'explain' all the plague and other events. These ancient stories were collected years later. the legends about different things get mixed up in time and space, and often get arranged as happening to a single hero (and or his people) when in the real world, to the extent they are true at all, there is no reason to connect them. As has been pointed out in The Bible Unearthed and other places, famines in Canaan happened more than once, with people fleeing to Egypt, where they would wear out their welcome and have to leave. Exodus has all the marks of being an anthology assembled years later from a whole potpouri of tribal memories

08-18-2006, 07:25 AM	#5
EthnAlln Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Burlington, Vermont Posts: 5,179	I just saw a spot announcement on the History Channel (I'm wasting a beautiful Friday morning watching three hours on the Nazi SS). I don't trust the "history" presented on this channel. It's primary aim is to secure viewers and sell advertising. You can bet that the evidence will be sanitized, polished, and photographed from an angle that makes the Exodus seem historical. Better-informed archaeologists will be allowed to face the camera and deny the Exodus, but they won't be given the last word, and they'll be sandwiched between speakers who will be allowed to present what appears to be physical evidence. It's an old trick: Give one side impressive graphics; make the other side issue a bald statement with no time to present the evidence.

08-18-2006, 07:36 AM	#6
Amaleq13 Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Eagle River, Alaska Posts: 7,816	The first thread on this subject is here and a subsequent thread is here so I'm closing this one.

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