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43 pages of results. 426. Velikovsky and Historical Anti-Naturism [Journals] [Kronos]
... geographical journal that purported to show that the Dead Sea was not one million years old as supposed, but was as little as 50,000 or even less than 4,000 years old (based on the amount of magnesium or sodium found in the water). The latter date would approximately correspond with the traditional date of Moses' exodus from Egypt. Attempting to find an Egyptian reference to that event, he came across a 1909 translation of a papyrus which Egyptologists agreed was much earlier than any acceptable date for the Exodus. But the details seemed remarkably similar to the Biblical account. The papyrus also related the story of the conquest of Egypt by the Amu. Velikovsky ...
427. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah [Journals] [Kronos]
... of a sea. However, when the Israelites under Moses and Joshua reached the area in their flight from Egypt, they found a sea there.(1 ) Thus, it seems to have appeared after a catastrophe later than the one that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. But if there were no Dead Sea much before the time of the Exodus whither did the Jordan flow, assuming it was already in existence? The Jordan might not have been in existence at all, or it could have flowed into the open sea, the Mediterranean. Legendary reminiscences from the patriarchal age indicate that the Jordan existed before the Dead Sea came into being.(2 ) It appears that the ...
428. The Spark, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... tradition related in Kitab Alaghani(11) is familiar with the plague of insects (ants of the smallest variety) that forced the tribe to migrate from Hedjaz to their native land, where they were destroyed by "Toufan"a deluge. In my reconstruction of ancient history, I endeavour to establish the synchronism of these events and the Exodus. 1. Exodus 14 : 19 ff. 2. Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel (transl. Gifford), Bk. ix, Chap. xxvii. Calmet, Commentaire, l'Exode, p. 154, correctly understood the passage in Artapanus because he paraphrases it as follows: "Artapanus dans Eusèbe dit que les Egyptiens furent ...
429. Velikovsky And The Media [Journals] [Pensee]
... ideas hold about as much water as a well-worn cheese-cloth. They're the result of trying to find one sweeping explanation for every strange and wonderful event that confronts us." And further: "Is it reasonable to expect all this to happen so that the errant planet [Venus) can show up on cue for most of the miracles of Exodus?" Well, after all, a single, unified theory explaining many different things is preferable to numerous separate theories if it can be made to stick, which is the question. As to the "coincidence" which brought Venus to Earth's vicinity on cue for the Exodus, a reader wrote Bova explaining, "That's like saying ...
430. Syllabi for Quantavolution [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ; M. Truzzi, el., The Zetetic Scholar (excerpts); A. de Grazia, "The Coming Cosmic Debate in the Sciences and Humanities, " (offprint). II. Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return; D. Talbott, Saturn; A. Grazia, "Moses and the Management of Exodus;" J. Ziegler, YHWH; Plato, "Critias" and "Timaeus (selections);" A. Isenberg, "Devi and Venus;" III Claude Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée.. (translated portions); A. de Grazia, The Rise of Homo Schizo (excerpted chapters); IV Luis Alvarez et ...
431. The Battle In The Sky, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... world, in which the nations relate the experience of their ancestors who witnessed the great catastrophe of the middle of the second millennium. At that time the Israelites had not yet arrived at a clear monotheistic concept and, like other peoples, they saw in the great struggle a conflict between good and evil. The author of the Book of Exodus, suppressing the conception of the ancient Israelites, presented the portent of fire and smoke moving in a column as an angel or messenger of the Lord. However, many passages in other books of the Scriptures preserved the picture as it impressed itself upon eyewitnesses. Rahab is the Hebrew name for the contester with the Most High. " ...
432. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... directly and completely refutes his hypothesis'. Venus's orbit shows no eccentricity – today we see absolutely no evidence whatsoever that such a[(n ) electromagnetic] force exists in anywhere near the strength required to do a fractionof what he claims – if such a force existed, it stopped working shortly after the events described in the Book of Exodus – if it did exist, why are some planets' and moons' orbits notperfect circles, or even close to them? '. So, if Velikovsky was so utterly and obviously wrong, why do so many people still follow his work and think he was right? The question is more philosophical than practical. However, part ...
433. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... catastrophe the book has some value, enhanced, I feel, by the author not being a disciple of NATURE. Despite the mainly orthodox approach, some less orthodox thoughts may be suggested to the reader. Acknowledgement: to Birgit Liesching, who drew my attention to this book. Jill Abery ADVERTISEMENT GOD'S FIRE: MOSES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF EXODUS by Alfred de Grazia "A scientific adventure into a peak historical crisis involving Moses, Pharaoh, the great God Yahweh, their desperate peoples, the fall of civilisations, and the birth of a new age. The depredations of a great comet provoke an electrified age and electrical inventions. A unique psychiatric analysis of Moses explains his scientific ...
434. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... not investigated Velikovsky's work in any depth and he ended up by repeating many of the erroneous assertions and mythological interpretations contained in Worlds in Collision. Worse than that, de Grazia, as I myself had once done, continued to build on these errors, extending their natural fall-out to include the cosmic catastrophes of those eras preceding that of the Exodus. On top of all that, while de Grazia acknowledged the universality of the mythological record, he showed a distinct penchant for using Greek sources as the yard-stick against which to measure his cosmic scheme. This tendency, which had exhibited itself on an earlier occasion, had already been criticized by Peter James but de Grazia, perhaps because ...
435. Finding the Limits of Chronological Revision [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS C & C Review 2003 (Nov 2003) Conference Proceedings Ages Still in Chaos' Home | Issue Contents Finding the Limits of Chronological Revision John J. Bimson Dr John J Bimson has been a member of and contributor to 5IS since its earliest days He is the author of Redating the Exodus and Conquest, based on his PhD research into the archaeologicai setting of the Israelite entry into Canaan. Introduction At the start of my paper to the SIS Silver Jubilee Conference [1 ], I referred to the fact that there is now a whole supermarket shelf of revised chronologies on offer' - a situation amply illustrated by John Crowe's paper at the same event [ ...
436. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . 50-51 We note very briefly three important finds in Iraq. In a long-standing excavation at Sippar an entire intact library has been recovered in the Shamash temple. At Tell Abu Duwari in southern Iraq the site of ancient Mashkan-shapir, home of Nergal, has been rediscovered. And further discoveries in a tomb at Nimrud have revealed great treasures. Exodus redating debate sources: Biblical Archaeology Review Nov/Dec 1988, pp. 22 & 74; BAR Sept/Oct 1988, p. 67; BAR Jan/Feb 1989, p. 11 Further to our item in Workshop 1988:2 , p. 25, we note John Bimson's response to Manfred Bietak's criticisms which appeared in ...
437. An Alternative to the Velikovskian Chronology for Ancient Egypt [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Review. At this stage it was felt unnecessary to provide references, footnotes and acknowledgements which, again, will find their proper place in the final articles. The list starts with the later dynasties which form the "Third Intermediate Period" including the earliest unequivocal date in Egyptian history and journeys backward in time to reach the date for the Exodus proposed by Dr Velikovsky. (A ) General Considerations (1 ) Eusebius (5th century AD), in his introduction to the Aegyptiaca of Manetho states: .. . it must be supposed that perhaps several Egyptian kings ruled at one and the same time; for they say that the rulers were kings of This, of Memphis ...
438. Ebla and Near East Chronology Part I [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... (i .e . rather than the conventional position which places MB IIB-C in the Hyksos period). He also suggests that MB IIB-C and dynasty XIII extended for some 300+ years, a period that could encompass the whole of the Amorite Old Babylonian phase, that is, assuming an entry into Babylonia late in MB IA. The Exodus Phenomena The destruction and abandonment of such MB sites as Mari on the middle Euphrates and Misar in the Taurus, and the evidence of conflagration on a grand scale from Beycesultan V in southwest Anatolia to MIIB Ebla, Ugarit, Qatna, Byblos, Alalakh, etc., indicates Velikovsky was probably correct in the placement of the Exodus in ...
439. Earthquakes [Books] [de Grazia books]
... two, or all may happen at once. The duration of the movement may be of seconds, or minutes. There may be a single shaking or a series going on for days, and again repeated months later. (The ancients cried to heaven over interminable tremblings, as when the Egyptians suffered them during the days of the Hebrew Exodus.) Electrical fields gather and play about the scene, beforehand, during, and afterwards. The world may seem to be glowing with fire in the distance. The ground sends up thunder and groans. It screams. It makes rattles like volleys of gunfire. Winds spring up and blow hard. Waters are agitated; tidal waves ...
440. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Hoyle and Wickramasinghe). All the indications are that the scientific community is rather excited by this theory, and already the big names are lining up, for and against. Its appearance in the highly respectable GEOPHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (forthcoming) should be the start of a lively debate: we will doubtless hear more of this. Redating the Exodus?sources: BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW July/August 1985, vol.XI:4 , pp.58-69: idem Nov/Dec 1985, vol.XI:6 , pp.l8-19, 72. Professor William H.Stiebing Jr., who participated in the debate on Velikovsky's chronology in PENSEE in the 1970's, renews his ...
441. KA [Books]
... is not necessarily sacer. Sanctus also means august, divine, pure, holy. It is used of a deity and of divine objects such as sedes, seat, fanum, temple or shrine, and sacrificial fires (Aeneid III:406). The sanctum sanctorum is the Holy of Holies, qodhesh haqqodhaskim, of Old Testament, Exodus XXVI:34. Sacer means holy, associated with a divinity; Greek hieros. A vates, prophet, is sacer (associated with Apollo). Sacer can also mean associated with divinity in a destructive situation; impious, accursed. Sacerdos is a priest. There are two kinds of priest, those who are in charge of ...
442. Velikovsky in Shakespeare [Articles]
... 2.6 .9 - 10. Thus, because Octavius is given a cosmic or at least worldwide dimension, the mythical magnitude of the love affair is matched by that of the political conflict. The consequences for Earth acquire the same significance, and indeed a greater one. In Old Testamental terms, Egypt is the locale of the Exodus, and overtones of this event are recalled for us in Cleopatra's exclamation Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures Turn all to serpents! 2.5 .78 - 79 This is reinforced at the Battle of Actium, where Scarus, Antony's lieutenant, compares Antony's defeat to the tokened pestilence, Where death is sure. The image ...
443. Jerusalem -- City of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the tribal confederation. Zadok seems to represent the pre-Davidic priesthood of Jerusalem, and his presence with Abiathar in the royal entourage suggests how David fused Israelite traditions and institutions with those of the city he made his capital."(59) If we may be permitted to speculate, it would appear that Israel, newly emerged from its Exodus and Wandering experience, was being theologically torn between its pre-Exodic religious beliefs and newer ones engendered by the Great Cataclysm of c. 1500 B.C . Ancient planetary worship, once suppressed, may have been rekindled by the advent of the Venus Comet. And so, the burdensome trek towards immaterial and aniconic monotheism had to begin again ...
444. The Cornell Lecture: Sagan on A Wednesday [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... his heart" [when quoting Sagan, I will spell such words as Pharaoh the way Sagan thinks they are spelled] "and the result was a bunch of plagues, like frogs falling from the sky." But there is no reason to suppose that the Plague of Frogs was anything more than an unusual proliferation of terrestrial frogs. Exodus 8:3 simply says that "the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly," and there is no indication of their "falling from the sky." Nevertheless, Sagan continues: Well, Velikovsky thinks, my goodness, there's a comet coming close to the earth and at just the same time there is frogs falling from the ...
445. The Dating of Hammurabi [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... 1000 B.C . with other sources. For the period prior to David the references are few and brief. If Hammurabi belongs to the time of David we should expect Sumerian history to reflect the events narrated in the biblical book of Judges. For our purposes we will begin at the time when Israel begins to invade Canaan. The Exodus from Egypt was 480 years before the end of the fourth year of King Solomon (1 Kings 6:1 ). The currently accepted chronology of Edwin Thiele places the accession of Rehoboam of Judah and Jeroboam I of Israel at 931 B.C . Rehoboam's father Solomon ruled 40 years (1 Kings 11:42), which ...
446. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the land (through the wars of Joshua), or the miracle of Purim (through the bravery of Esther), G-d's Presence and His hand in world events are almost always invisible and disguised as "natural" circumstances. He is hidden to the degree that the Hebrews, even when recently emerging out of the miracles accompanying their Exodus from Egypt, were unsure as to whether YHWH was among them or not. [53] I don't expect Cardona will adopt this disgust for idolatry, but he should at least understand and respect ours. I respect the Saturn theory. In general it incorporates a lot of evidence that cannot be ignored. I think these discoveries are ...
447. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1998:2 (Mar 1998) Home | Issue Contents Letters Sennacherib and Solomon In C&CR 1998:1 (Letters p. 59), Michael Reade queries my dating of the death of Sennacherib to 405BC, claiming that this would place the Exodus in 630BC, 25 years after the time of Solomon and asks what is the value of erudite argument on such shaky foundations'? An enlightened mainstream Biblical archaeologist would answer Michael Reade most probably as follows: (i ) Bible chronology jumps in pious multiples of 40 years. Thus, the Bible fundamentalist date of Solomon carries no real weight in scholarly circles; (ii) ...
448. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . The Hindu Devi is remarkably similar in the commotion that she causes when born (Isenberg, p90). Various studies analyzed by de Grazia (1981, 1982a) set the time of her birth near 3,450 BP, in accordance with older studies by Velikovsky (1952, pp1-53, 98-101). The time coincides with the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt under Moses, an event so fraught with catastrophe that it remains the substratum of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic religions. If Venus was erupted from Jupiter, it conceivably burst from the disturbed area of the Great Red Spot. Although not demonstrable, this is hypothetically feasible. It was Jupiter's greatest discharge, ...
449. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... most recent worldwide climatic catastrophe, in the mid-6th century AD, is covered in depth by David Keys, in Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World (Arrow, London, 1999), the consequences were so far-reaching the event should be considered the transition point between the ancient and modern worlds. For Mike Baillie (Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets, Batsford, London, 1999), it was the latest of several such catastrophes which have been revealed by the new science of tree-ring dendrochronology. Baillie's tree-ring records, when cross-referenced with ice core samples, indicate worldwide climatic events around 4370 BC, 3190 BC, 2454/45 BC, 1628 ...
450. Bronze Age Multi-Site Destructions (A Preliminary Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Review under the title An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC' [2 ]. Mandelkehr's evidence ranged right round the globe and his theory also involved earthquakes, but he never stated the fundamental cause. I am told that he had in mind a collision with a minor astronomical body. On my own chronology, the Exodus and Conquest come at this period, but that does not necessitate widespread upheavals - except in Egypt and Palestine. Unfortunately, I have no explanation to offer as to a physical cause for disasters in other areas: I can only attempt to summarise the evidence. It is, of course, very tricky to accurately link destructions this far ...
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