Moses was converted into Yahwism in Sinai desert seing burning bush. Then fires from the mountaintop inspired him to give his people 10 new principles of faith. So the religion of Jews en route from Egypt to Palestine was changed once and for all.
Was that Thera (Greece) volcano with columns of smoke and fire visible across the Med struck him that hard that he saw it as a revelation of a real, terrific god Yahweh? God of volcano eruption, fear and terror? Moses abandoned his older gods from Egypt, and various Baals, and created a totally new religion - that of one, powerful and deadly god. The god that secretly protects all Jews once they follow Mosaic instructions.
What if their Exodus happened some time before that great volcanic eruption? Would we have now a religion of Egypt, or maybe Mithraism, or even better that of Zoroaster?
2007-02-03
19:45:41
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vladimir l
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