Comments:Chronological Reverse Threaded

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paji2 wrote on Aug 14
If my understanding is correct, Moses did cross the Red Sea - however not the Red Sea as we know it today. Be it an arm of it, long gone, or the Red Sea shifted, I do not know.But I think you are essential correct that the route as we might imagine it today would be out of the way, and even with God parting the sea, the bed would have been too deep and almost impassable.

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mercedo wrote on Aug 14
This type of replacement sometimes occurs when the name remains but where the exact place was untraceable. I guess Red Sea was called so because of the colour of numerous sands carried from upper river, which must have been a big river and judging from surrounding geographical situations, See of Reeds might be one of the proper candidates.

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paji2 wrote on Aug 14
mercedo saidSee of Reeds might be one of the proper candidates. There is a weight of evidence suggesting this to be so.

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ullangoo wrote on Aug 14
I'd be interested to know how similar - if at all - the Hebrew words for "red" and "reed" are. This sounds a bit strange. There's not much difference between ebb and flood in the Mediterranean, for instance.Personally I think the whole story is a myth made by people who had only heard about Egypt and the Red Sea.

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mercedo wrote today at 7:52 AM
My Bible footnote says in Hebrew Yam Suph, that is the Sea of Reeds.
Probably this Hebrew words mean the Sea of Reeds, but New International Version followed the traditional translation, which was the Red Sea though it was not exactly the Red Sea judging from Hebrew words.
There's not much difference between ebb and flood in the Mediterranean, for instance.
I saw Mediterranean Sea one time in Venice. If there had been ebb and flood there, the whole city of Venice would not have survived.
Personally I think the whole story is a myth made by people who had only heard about Egypt and the Red Sea.
I think the whole story of Genesis is mythical. Many people live slightly less than 1 millennium, for instance, and there's no description between the event Joseph invited his 11 brothers and the beginning of Exodus though there must have several hundred years time.
As to crossing the sea, there might have appeared the passage had the direction of flow in the lower part of Nile changed. It might have been a complete fiction to emphasise the miraculous power of their God.