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43 pages of results. 151. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) Cohane has chanced upon a series of common sounds in diverse languages common to human speech in general. In addition, and I think others such as Derek Shelley-Pearce may agree here, Jill has made the valid point that the Abraham story has mythological parallels. It has previously been suggested (in an SIS letter several years ago) the Exodus story also has strong mythological parallels with Egyptian religio-myth, i.e ., banishment, heavenly catastrophe, darkness, circumcision, etc. It is worth noting that even the historical persons of David and Solomon are semi-mythological. The idea of great physical beauty, the great and mighty king and warrior, the sacrifice of Absalom, banishment ...
152. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... origins of western civilization. Jill Abery The afternoon's proceedings were opened by David Rohl, who gave a talk on the Second Intermediate Period, the period embracing the Egyptian 13th, 14th and 17th Dynasties and the Hyksos 15th and 16th Dynasties (roughly 1750-1550 BC in the orthodox scheme). The central question was, did Velikovsky's theory that the Exodus occurred just before the onset of the Hyksos period still stand up, or did the archaeological evidence from the site of ancient Raamses, where the Israelites congregated before their escape, militate against it? Little is known about the Hyksos. Even for Manetho they were a people of obscure race'. When they occupied Egypt they worshipped Seth ...
... On at least two occasions, he said, the Earth passed through the trailing debris of the comet-like Venus, showers of stone and fire descending on terrestrial inhabitants and leveling civilizations the world over. It was the first of these two disasters, in Velikovsky's reconstruction, which ended the Egyptian Middle Kingdom and provided the catastrophic backdrop to the Hebrew Exodus.To build his case Velikovsky undertook a global survey of mythical and historical records, supplemented by archaeological testimony. He claimed that ancient observations of planetary motions make no sense, at least in terms of the heavens we know today. Ancient sundials and water clocks, he reported, likewise testify to an altered celestial order, while the ...
154. Legends and Miracles [Books] [de Grazia books]
... something with connotations of both "horn" and "ray of light" may be intended, inasmuch as the phenomenon was capable of giving both impressions, and people were quite sensitive to "horns" in this aftermath of the revolt of the Golden Calf. Ruth Mellinkoffs enchanting study of The Horned Moses concludes that St. Jerome's translation of Exodus 34:29 as horned' appears "in keeping with the context and meaning of horned' in the ancient world as well as the metaphorical meaning of horn' and horned' in the Bible. It meant strength, honor, victory, power, divinity, kingship, and salvation..." The scholar-theologians of the Church ...
155. The Archangels, Part 2 Mars Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... : "The Holy One created Mars- Maadim- that he should throw them [the nations] down into hell."10 A few rabbinical sources attribute the destruction of Sennacherib's army to the action of the Archangel Michael; some ascribe it to both archangels.11 Who, then, is the Archangel Michael? The entire story of Exodus is connected with the Archangel Michael. In Exodus 14:19 the pillar of fire and of cloud is called Angel of God. According to the Midrash,12 it was the Archangel Michael who made himself "a wall of fire" between the Israelites and the Egyptians. Michael is said to be made of fire. The Haggadah ...
156. The Archangels [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Sodomitic destruction. Gabriel's role as Mars was discounted. What reasoning led O'Gheoghan to this conclusion? 4. Celestial Twins Before answering that last question, it is necessary to backtrack a little. Velikovsky's identification of the archangel Michael as the planet Venus was based on the traditional role that Michael is made to play in the events of the Exodus.(22) But, without wishing to go into too much detail, Michael is not there made to play a destructive role. The "familiar image of the Archangel Michael slaying the dragon," which Velikovsky presented as a depiction of "the celestial struggle at the Sea of Passage,"(23) is not acceptable ...
157. In Defence of the Revised Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... be found in Waddell, op. cit. Where details conflict between the different versions, this does not necessarily mean that one or the other is corrupted - the different extractors might well use, for instance, different definitions of periods of rulership when listing joint reigns, regencies, etc. 13. D. A. Courville, The Exodus Problem and its Ramifications (Loma Linde, Ca., 1971), p. 170. The quote is from Manetho's Epitome, frag. 1, 7 (p . 9 of Waddell). - See also Kronos, Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 1975, which gives an extract from Courville's book under the title ...
158. The Temple in Jerusalem (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... Ages in Chaos Volume I: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton CHAPTER FOUR The Temple in Jerusalem Immanuel Velikovsky Thutmose III Prepares the Disintegration of the Empires of Solomon During the last period of her reign Queen Hatshepsut made Thutmose III co-ruler with her on the throne. At first he played a subordinate role: his name was written after hers; in pictures his figure was placed behind hers. The bas-reliefs of the Punt expedition show the young prince as a small figure in the background, bringing an offering of incense to the bark of Amon-Ra. Later, when he reigned alone, Thutmose III became the greatest of all the conquerors who sat on the throne of the New Kingdom ...
159. The Problem of Adjusting the Date Limits of the Archaeological Ages to Meet Velikovsky's Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Introduction It is only recently that the necessity for revising the dates for the archaeological ages has come to the front as a factor in evaluating the feasibility of Velikovsky's revision of Egyptian chronology as provided in Ages in Chaos. This problem, however, was recognized by the writer as early as the mid-1960's, as indicated by a placement of the exodus/conquest era at the end of the Early Bronze Age. [1 ] The principle involved was iterated at the 1978 Glasgow Conference in an article by John Bimson.[2 ] While some few participants at the conference evidently continued to defend Velikovsky's position relative to revising the chronology of the late dynasties of Egypt, it was the ...
160. The el-Amarna Letters (Concluded) (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... Ages in Chaos Volume I: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton CHAPTER EIGHT The el-Amarna Letters (Concluded)Immanuel Velikovsky Iarimuta On reading the letters of the king of Sumur (Samaria), we are impressed by the frequent mention of a place called Iarimuta, also Rimuta,1 and by the role it played in the aspirations of the king. This place is referred to only in his letters, eighteen times in thirteen letters. From there his people obtained grain in the years of the famine in return for heavy payments, trading of household implements, and even giving children into slavery. In previous times grain from Iarimuta had belonged by right to Sumur (Samaria) ...
161. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the large comet can be found in comet Encke, the Taurid meteor stream and some 50-100 Earth-crossing asteroids. Whereas Clube and Napier have indicated in The Cosmic Winter some relatively minor events' which might have been caused by Earth's encounters with the Taurids, the reader is left to deduce that the more significant events' (the Deluge, the Exodus) were caused, in their thesis, by comet Encke crossing the Earth. There is, therefore, an immediate problem for anyone who would create a modern synthesis for, according to the myths interpreted by Velikovsky, the early significant events' (e .g . the Exodus) were caused by Venus deities, goddesses strongly associated ...
162. Gezer and the Philistines (Letter) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... paper on Gezer, I am afraid that he has misunderstood my position regarding the Philistines. I do not cast doubt that they were "The Peoples of the Sea" who fought Rameses III. The reason for the phrase being in parentheses is that I cast doubt on their being called by this name. In my "Theory Workshop: Exodus and Shishak Unravelled" [C &AH, 7/2 ] I make clear that the Peleset, Tjekker, and Danu who attacked Ramesses III were in fact the Philistines, the tribe of Dan and the tribe of Asher in a confederation. Whelton makes my point exactly when he says the Philistines did not suddenly appear by sea ...
163. A British Forum for the Velikovsky Debate [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... and ETIENNE DRIOTON (Director, Dept. of Antiquities Cairo; Chief Curator, Louvre). Velikovsky's first historical work, "Ages in Chaos" (1952), proposed a complete revision of Egyptian history, beginning with a lowering of the date for the end of the Middle Kingdom (XIIIth Dynasty) to the Biblical dating of the Exodus (c . 1450 BC), placing the Hyksos period contemporary with the time of the Judges and the XVIIIth Dynasty coeval with the United and early Divided Monarchies of Israel (c . 1020-820 BC). Velikovsky supported these proposals with a remarkable series of new synchronisms, such as his conclusion that Queen Hatshepsut's voyage to the "Land ...
164. A Collective Amnesia, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... lava by thousands of volcanoes, melting of the ground, boiling of the sea, submersi on of continents, a primeval chaos bombarded by flying hot stones, the roaring of the cleft earth, and the loud hissing of tornadoes of cinders. There occurred more than one world conflagration; the most horrible one was in the days of the Exodus. In hundreds of passages in their Bible, the Hebrews described what happened. Returning from the Babylonian exile in the sixth and fifth centuries befo re this era, the Hebrews did not cease to learn and repeat the traditions, but they lost sight of the fearful reality of what they learned. Apparently, the post-Exile generations looked upon ...
165. A Test of Time: Volume I the Bible - From Myth to History by David M. Rohl [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Middle Bronze Age. Part Five consists of five appendices, which cover the dating of Shoshenq I; TIP genealogies; radiocarbon dating; Sothic dating; and Assyrian chronology. Rohl bases his chronological revision on the study of two of the key periods in Egyptian and biblical history. The earlier is the Israelite sojourn and bondage in Egypt, the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan, which he synchronises with the Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period; the later period is the early Israelite monarchy, which is synchronised with the New Kingdom. The latter has been one of the major topics of discussion in SIS publications for two decades. Until the early 1980s its main focus was an ...
166. Chapter II: The Events [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... is attached to them. VENUS-EARTH ENCOUNTER ONE After an unknown number of orbits which were uneventful, but probably impressive from the stargazers standpoint, Venus had its first major encounter with the earth about 1450 BC. The results of this encounter were recorded by many ancient cultures, but these events are most noted for being the plagues associated with the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt The first physical evidence was a reddish material falling through the atmosphere. RED Rayleigh showed that practically all the light seen in a clear blue sky is a result of scattering by the molecules of air. If it were not for the atmosphere, the sky would look black. However, as the amount of ...
167. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... Back | Main Contents | Volume Contents | Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume III Bible Times and Characters from the Exodus to the Death of Moses Amalek Defeated Jethro Installation of Elders Jethro Rewarded The Time is at Hand The Gentiles Refuse the Torah The Contest of the Mountains The Torah Offered to Israel Israel Prepares for the Revelation AMALEK DEFEATED Moses now instructed Joshua in regard to his campaign against Amalek, saying, "Choose us out men and go out, fight with Amalek." The words "choose us" characterize the modesty of Moses, who treated his disciple Joshua as an equal; in these words he has taught us that the honor of our ...
168. Good Medicine [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... fragrance, which cured them of all their diseases' [2 ]. This substance, manna also replaced perfume for [the Israelites], for it shed an excellent fragrance upon those who ate it' [3 ]. It was like the coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (Exodus 16:31). Thus though mainly thought of as food, manna seems also to have had health-preserving and sickness-relieving qualities. The children of Israel did eat manna forty years .. . until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan' (Exodus 16:35). A calamity suffered by them at a late ...
169. Still Facing Unfair Criticism (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... times would be of "academic interest" only. So let us look at the evidence presented in these three sections. TREE RINGS The fact that some bristlecone pine trees were found to have survived from before the mid-second millennium Earth-Venus events is considered by Ellenberger a "cogent" proof against "the devastation and darkness alleged to have attended the Exodus". In KRONOS X: I, pp. 95-96, he wrote: ". . . just as Earth in Upheaval was being completed, it was discovered in 1954 that bristlecone pine rings go back further than Sequoias, beyond 3000 B.C . [sic] . Curiously, whereas Velikovsky could quote S. K. ...
170. Views In Brief [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... have had an alternative interpretation to that offered by Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision (part 1, chapter VIII, "The Birth of Venus") in which the latter says that Quetzalcoatl first appeared following a disaster in which the Earth had been overwhelmed by convulsions and a deluge. Mr Eggleton suspects that Velikovsky considered this catastrophe to be the Exodus event, since at the time of writing his book he probably favoured the view that Venus had only recently emerged from Jupiter. Instead, Mr Eggleton suggests that it is more likely that the disaster, after which Quetzalcoatl appeared for the first time, was the Noachian Deluge. 2. Criticism of the recently published book, The Cosmic ...
171. The Darkness, Part 1 Venus Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... . Nobody could leave the palace [there was no exit from the palace] during nine days, and during these nine days of upheaval there was such a tempest that neither men nor gods [the royal family] could see the faces of those beside them."(5 ) This record employs the same description of the darkness as Exodus 10 : 22: "And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days." The difference in the number of the days (three and nine) of the darkness is reduced in the rabbinical sources, where the time ...
172. The Last Days of Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... atmospherical records, the geosphere, the ecosphere, the anthroposphere, the historical records, wherever available, would show some significant disturbances 3500 years ago, at the time at which Velikovsky put the catastrophic near passage of cometary Venus, before she was emplaced in her orbit as a planet, which was also the time which Velikovsky assigned to the Exodus of the Hebrew from Egypt. The article which Alfred projected to write in collaboration was to be offered to Nature magazine. There was going to be, obviously, a lot to serious and difficult talk about it - Velikovsky was not an easy interlocutor - and I thought that my presence - although I would well taken care of by ...
173. Old Testament Tales – Part IV & V, Moses as Magus 'A' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have made few attempts to chase up the other sources of quoted material. I would be grateful if those who find that their masterpieces have been used without ascription will accept this paragraph as my grateful acknowledgement to each and every one of them. OTT 2-3 show that both archaeology and history back the stories of Israelite bondage in Egypt, the Exodus and the desert wanderings; and show that Moses, a young victorious prince, probably fled Egypt when Pharaoh and the priests saw him as a contender for the crown. Anger at being rewarded for his success in Nubia by being forced into exile most likely explains why he then plotted to subvert the Egyptian economy by leading a mass emigration ...
174. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... suggested that, on several occasions in historical times, other planets of the solar system had wandered into the vicinity of the Earth, giving rise to global catastrophes. In particular, Venus, then possessing a comet-like tail, had made a close passage around 1450 BC, causing great problems for humankind, including the plagues of Egypt mentioned in Exodus (which allowed him to date the event, on the basis of Jewish tradition). In attempting to reconcile Egyptian accounts with those of the Old Testament Velikovsky concluded that the Venus event' had occurred in the period leading up to the conquest of Egypt by the Hyksos, conventionally dated to around 1650 BC. Hence, since this ...
175. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... would be November 1987. On November 23rd and 24th 1987 there were two earthquakes in the fault zone near the US/Mexico border. Thera Theories sources: Catastrophism and Ancient History IX:2 , pp.69-79 Archaeology 41:2 (March/April 1988), p.20 All those who believe that the events of the Exodus can be explained in terms of the eruption of Thera in the eastern Mediterranean Sea ought to read William H. Stiebing's article carefully. He challenges Goedicke's placement of the Exodus by disputing the latter's interpretation of an inscription of Hatshepsut, and he takes a swipe at Wilson and at Bimson; moreover, the evidence on which the Thera - ...
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