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Utnapisjtim
reply to post by BELIEVERpriest
Guess they had flood gates in Jordan just as they had in the Nile. Like I said, all of Egypt was green and fertile back in the time of Moses. The reason for this was an elaborate system of dams, canals, sluises and water basins.
And nowhere in the OT is the Red Sea mentioned. 'The Sea of Reeds' however is (though mistranslated Red Sea many places), and like I said, it's a game of words, playing on 'The Field of Reeds' the Egyptian name for Paradise. We are not talking about a mere marsh, but a regulated lake. To the left and right of Moses &al were 'joined walls', i.e. 'brick walls' or even 'hinged walls' is a possible translation. 'Yam sup' means lit. 'Sea of Reeds'. 'Soof' or 'sup' translates into 'Reed'. Tradition and presedence in translation has brought in the Red Sea, but it is not a correct translation. It should read 'Sea of Reeds'. See: www.biblestudytools.com...edit on 9-12-2013 by Utnapisjtim because: Clearing up+typosedit on 9-12-2013 by Utnapisjtim because: Deleted last sentence
BELIEVERpriest
Utnapisjtim
reply to post by BELIEVERpriest
Guess they had flood gates in Jordan just as they had in the Nile. Like I said, all of Egypt was green and fertile back in the time of Moses. The reason for this was an elaborate system of dams, canals, sluises and water basins.
And nowhere in the OT is the Red Sea mentioned. 'The Sea of Reeds' however is (though mistranslated Red Sea many places), and like I said, it's a game of words, playing on 'The Field of Reeds' the Egyptian name for Paradise. We are not talking about a mere marsh, but a regulated lake. To the left and right of Moses &al were 'joined walls', i.e. 'brick walls' or even 'hinged walls' is a possible translation. 'Yam sup' means lit. 'Sea of Reeds'. 'Soof' or 'sup' translates into 'Reed'. Tradition and presedence in translation has brought in the Red Sea, but it is not a correct translation. It should read 'Sea of Reeds'. See: www.biblestudytools.com...edit on 9-12-2013 by Utnapisjtim because: Clearing up+typosedit on 9-12-2013 by Utnapisjtim because: Deleted last sentence
'Yam' can be translated sea, lake, wide river. Basically a body of water.
'Suph' can be translated reed, weed, flag, or red (associated with certain reeds or weeds).
So, yes, yam suph can be translated lake of reeds in the right context. In this case, the context indicates the Sea of Seaweed, later to be called the Red Sea, after the people of Edom (meaning red). This is confirmed by 1Kings 9:26. Solomon built ships off the cost of the Yam Sup (Red Sea). This is the same Red Sea off the coast of Edom. This is confirmed throughout the Old and New Testament, and of course, the LXX as previously mentioned. Even the Apocrypha identifies the Yam Suph as the Red Sea.
The notion that the Yam Suph of the Exodus account referes to some lake or fresh water resovior, is a relatively new idea. The ancient world knew that Yam Suph was the Sea of Seaweed, or the Red Sea.
Utnapisjtim
reply to post by BELIEVERpriest
Guess they had flood gates in Jordan just as they had in the Nile. Like I said, all of Egypt was green and fertile back in the time of Moses. The reason for this was an elaborate system of dams, canals, sluises and water basins.
Logarock
reply to post by Utnapisjtim
Well lets get back to your original postulations to explain an alternative to the Exodus. Well they are not very well thought out. I can't believe you would make a case based on these ideas until reading over the entire thread it become clear this is just a troll thread. Makes some poor counter theories, lure folks in to talk about them, then start bashing the KJV and calling folks that don't go in with you believers in "Santa" ect.
The last minute conversion of the arrogant Pharaoh who persecuted Israelite believers was not accepted. The most amazing thing with this dead body is that it is not a mummy. Scientists say that this dead body is amazingly preserved without any mummification; no inside organs have been removed. So what is the secret of such good preservation of this body? See the answer in the Glorious Quran where Allah Almighty says that Pharaohs body will be preserved as a warning for generations. It means his body will not decay. ‘Today We will preserve your body so you can be a Sign for people who come after you.’ (Quran 10: 92) Dr Maurice Bucaille was one of the top scientists of the world and the head of a group of physicians concerned on doing researches of the body in France in 1981. Ramses II was really old, perhaps was in his early 90’s when he died. He discovered traces of salt in the mummy’s respiratory system and concluded that most probably he died of drowning. Other examinations showed that Pharaoh’s body did not remain in the water for too long after drowning. After it was verified that the mummy in fact was the Pharaoh who rejected the message of Moses, the body was flown to major cities of the world for people to see. Later Dr Bucaille began working on Ramses II’s son Merneptah who probably was another witness to the deeds of Moses.
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op, may i ask why you have the noah guy as your avatar?
oh, lookie there, noAH. isn't that interesting. there's a reason i'm asking, so your answer would be useful to this conversation
Yes, and my "name" here is the oldest known name of the Sumerian proto-Noah, or Utnapishtim, you can read about in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Norse mythology we call him Heimdall, son of nine mothers (nine maternal generations between Adam and Noah) guarding the rainbow-bridge between the humans and the gods, being and father of all humans etc.
isn't it obvious from my question that i recognized him as being the noah guy? lol well the sumerian version of the noah guy. i still can't get over the fact that noah was named after Ea. that pretty much proves the akkadian flood account in the enuma elish errr no, the epic of gilgamesh, i do believe, that says Enki-Ea warned utnapisjtim of the coming flood. i have a whole theory about that, where the old testament is a mixture of jehovahs, with enlil being given the title that wasn't his in the first place. so sometimes you see enki-jehovah == saving of noah, creation of humans, confusing languages at babel, and sometimes you see enlil as jehovah, decreeing the downgrading of human dna, decreeing the flood, wiping out hundreds of thousands of israelites in the desert, frying sodom and gomorrah and so on.
2 different jehovahs, one of which wasn't really jehovah, just a usurper of the title.
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helius
The Exodus took place 792 years after the great flood. Isaac was born 392 year after the great flood. As you can see, this is exactly 400 years. So why did the alien ‘god’ of Israel start counting from the birth of Isaac?
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