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Catch it on a rerun. It was a great production and the proposed date, coinciding with Thera's eruption coincides with Velokovsky's predicted time - 3500 yrs ago. The name of the Pharaoh of that time means 'brother of Moses'.
The rub is G-d didn't have to do anything with a supervolcano to account for it all.
The Jews were the Hyksos.
Director picks up trail of Exodus
11:29 AM CDT on Saturday, August 12, 2006
By NANCY CHURNIN / Staff Writer
WHAT: The Exodus Decoded, a documentary about a director's search for the truth behind the biblical tale
WHEN: 7 p.m. Aug. 20
Courtesy
Director Simcha Jacobovici.
WHERE: The History Channel
SLEUTHING IN THE SINAI: Canadian director Simcha Jacobovici takes a controversial detective-type approach to archaeological, geologic and linguistic artifacts. He builds a case that the flight of the Jews from Egypt happened, but in 1500 B.C., centuries before most scholars have thought it did.
He points to a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini as the origin of the Bible's 10 plagues, showing how it could have turned the water red and brought swarms of frogs and locusts.
DARING ASSERTIONS: Mr. Jacobovici, a two-time Emmy-winner, seems to relish going where few historians have dared. His reworking of the Exodus timeline leads him to believe that the story's pharaoh was Ahmose rather than Ramses.
TANTALIZING FINDS: Mr. Jacobovici finds a hieroglyphic inscription describing the Exodus from an Egyptian point of view; a gold image dating back 3,500 years that he asserts is an image of the lost Ark of the Covenant; and a 3,500-year-old image from an Egyptian museum that may be a sculpture of Moses and the parting of the sea.
WATER TO BLOOD: In one of the strongest segments, Mr. Jacobovici looks at a 1986 volcanic eruption that turned Lake Nyos in Cameroon blood red (as in the first plague).
That eruption also produced fumes that killed people sleeping at ground level, significant because of an account in the biblical plague story. He asserts that in ancient times, the first-born Egyptian sons would have slept and died as in the 10th of the plagues described in the Book of Exodus, and the Hebrew children would have been spared because they were having their first Passover feast instead of sleeping.
FAITH MATTERS: Mr. Jacobovici knows that historians who write off the Exodus as a fairy tale may dismiss him, as will Bible believers who aren't interested in scientific proof. He offers a third option: Natural phenomena may have caused the plagues, but God may have manipulated natural conditions for a purpose.
A GREAT RIDE: The presentation is vivid, with seamless transitions from the director's modern journeys to computer-generated effects, his theories and his finds. Titanic director James Cameron is the executive producer.
Catch it on a rerun. It was a great production and the proposed date, coinciding with Thera's eruption coincides with Velokovsky's predicted time - 3500 yrs ago. The name of the Pharaoh of that time means 'brother of Moses'.
The rub is G-d didn't have to do anything with a supervolcano to account for it all.
The Jews were the Hyksos.
Director picks up trail of Exodus
11:29 AM CDT on Saturday, August 12, 2006
By NANCY CHURNIN / Staff Writer
WHAT: The Exodus Decoded, a documentary about a director's search for the truth behind the biblical tale
WHEN: 7 p.m. Aug. 20
Courtesy
Director Simcha Jacobovici.
WHERE: The History Channel
SLEUTHING IN THE SINAI: Canadian director Simcha Jacobovici takes a controversial detective-type approach to archaeological, geologic and linguistic artifacts. He builds a case that the flight of the Jews from Egypt happened, but in 1500 B.C., centuries before most scholars have thought it did.
He points to a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini as the origin of the Bible's 10 plagues, showing how it could have turned the water red and brought swarms of frogs and locusts.
DARING ASSERTIONS: Mr. Jacobovici, a two-time Emmy-winner, seems to relish going where few historians have dared. His reworking of the Exodus timeline leads him to believe that the story's pharaoh was Ahmose rather than Ramses.
TANTALIZING FINDS: Mr. Jacobovici finds a hieroglyphic inscription describing the Exodus from an Egyptian point of view; a gold image dating back 3,500 years that he asserts is an image of the lost Ark of the Covenant; and a 3,500-year-old image from an Egyptian museum that may be a sculpture of Moses and the parting of the sea.
WATER TO BLOOD: In one of the strongest segments, Mr. Jacobovici looks at a 1986 volcanic eruption that turned Lake Nyos in Cameroon blood red (as in the first plague).
That eruption also produced fumes that killed people sleeping at ground level, significant because of an account in the biblical plague story. He asserts that in ancient times, the first-born Egyptian sons would have slept and died as in the 10th of the plagues described in the Book of Exodus, and the Hebrew children would have been spared because they were having their first Passover feast instead of sleeping.
FAITH MATTERS: Mr. Jacobovici knows that historians who write off the Exodus as a fairy tale may dismiss him, as will Bible believers who aren't interested in scientific proof. He offers a third option: Natural phenomena may have caused the plagues, but God may have manipulated natural conditions for a purpose.
A GREAT RIDE: The presentation is vivid, with seamless transitions from the director's modern journeys to computer-generated effects, his theories and his finds. Titanic director James Cameron is the executive producer.
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