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Parting of the Red Sea.
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Sophisticated computer calculations indicate that the parting of the
Red Sea, said to have allowed the Israelites to have escaped from
Egypt, could have occurred precisely as the Bible describes it: "And
the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."
Oceanographers Doron Nof and Nathan Plador, reporting in the American
Meterological Society Bulletin (15 March 1992), have calculated that
a steady wind of about 46mph (40 knots), blowing for 10 to 12 hours,
could have pushed enough water to south to cause a 10 foot drop in
the sea level, exposing a large swath of sea floor across the
northern end of the Gulf of Suez, a distance of 12 to 18 miles. Nof
and Paldor suggest there might be a natural ridge across the gulf at
this point.
Since 1962 there have been scholars who interpret the crucial passage
in Exodus as saying the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds, a marshy
area at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez, not the Red Sea itself.
An abrupt change in the wind would have then allowed the waters to
have come crashing back in only four minutes, drowning the pursuing
Egyptian army. Of course, there is a glaring logical problem here:
if the wind thesis is correct, why hasn't the parting of the waters
been witnessed since the flight of the Israelites?
COSMIC.
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