GREAT! Please show me all of the "peer reviewed" articles on this Site that were done by archeologists from around the world. I would be very interested in seeing them.
The only one I know of was done by a Saudi Arabia team. Got any more?
I already did.
There are several archaeologists working to document every single rock carving site in Saudi Arabia and to protect them. I have linked it a few times now.
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photizo said:
It does meet the Biblical criteria, this why it is considered in the first place. It is directly stated that that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia. Arabia in the Bible is able to be determined by other quotes from the Bible. So much for the so called biggest problem
The bible states that the altar was built. Crafted if you will.
The site that Ron Wyatt "discovered" and which is the one that Seti keeps referring to are natural boulders with domestic animals carved into the stone.
And as I linked in a previous post, the petroglyphs represents the biggest contradiction. Moses destroyed the altar, remember and destroyed all evidence of the altar. But you think he left images of the golden calf (along with the other animals that are carved into the stone at the site) all over the boulders there?
Then of course comes the fact that the carvings are from the Neolithic period,
which is supported by archaeological evidence of neolithic cattle farming practices. You do understand that, yes? The rock art "discovered" by Ron Wyatt and which you and Seti keep referring to were used by neolithic farmers as forms of defensive lines, to mark their territory, if you will. Hence why they are found all around Saudi Arabia.
Midian was in the North West of what is now Saudi Arabia. Not where Ron Wyatt changed the map and suddenly had it at the South.
There is no evidence for the biblical exodus either.
The biblical Mt. Sinai is identified in Christian tradition with Jebel Musa in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, but this association dates only from the 3rd century CE and no evidence of the Exodus has been found there.
"Questionable" is attributable to just about anything. "Inaccurate" based upon "most scholars agree"? Sounds like a toothpaste commercial.
Only if you brush your teeth with a twig and do not use or believe in toothpaste.
These are biblical scholars, archaeologists and experts in the field. Do you believe them and their expertise in the field? Or a nurse who has been widely discredited and panned by even his own evangelical church for being a fraud?
But you have the account, and the account is presented why? To deceive you? To give you a good laugh? To confirm you in unbelief? Face it, the biggest problem is your own heart and mind.
Do you understand the point that the numbers do not add up? That there is no actual documentation from that time of this even having occurred? At all? Not from the Egyptians or the Canaanites living in the area of Midian? None. Because you would think that over a million people marching for 40 years would have attracted some attention. But there is absolutely no evidence of it, no documentation from the time.
The Egyptians documented everything, yet they fail to mention that over a third of their population leaving? This so called population were, in biblical context, building the pyramids.. supposedly.. And yet, there is no evidence of them being in Egypt at that time nor having left it? What? The Egyptians didn't notice when work ceased on their monument building? They didn't notice over a million people leaving and failed to document it?
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Captain Kremmen said:
If it was in Europe before 1500 BCE, then it would have been in Egypt well before 1300 BCE
Are you saying that one or the other or both have got their dates wrong?
The chariots match somewhat with the Jewish timeline.
However
it still does not all add up:
William F. Albright, the leading biblical archaeologist of the mid-20th century, proposed an alternative 13th century date of around 1250–1200 BCE for the Exodus event and the entry into Canaan described in the book of Joshua.[44] (The Merneptah Stele indicated that a people called "Israel" were already known in Canaan by the reign of Merneptah (1213–1203 BCE), so a date later than this was impossible). His argument was based on many strands of evidence, including archaeologically attested destruction at Beitel (Bethel) and some other cities at around that period and the occurrence of distinctive house-types and round-collared jars which, in his opinion, were "Israelite".[44] Albright's theory enjoyed popularity at the time, but has now been generally abandoned in scholarship:[44] the so-called "Israelite" house-type, the collar-rimmed jars, and other items which Albright thought distinctive and new have now been recognised as continuations of indigenous Canaanite types,[45] and while some "Joshua" cities, including Hazor,Lachish, Megiddo and others, have destruction and transition layers around 1250–1145 BCE, others, including Jericho, have none or were uninhabited during this period.[46][47]
Details in the story hint that a complex and multilayered editing process has been at work: the Exodus cities of Pithom and Rameses, for example, were not inhabited during most of the New Kingdom period, and the forty years of wilderness wanderings are also full of inconsistencies and anachronisms.
. The timelines are all wrong. It was impossible for over a million people to have made that passage for over 40 years and not have left a single trace.
People who believe in the Ron Wyatt version, such as those who are posting his so called evidence in this thread, are not people who are interested in actual facts. Ron Wyatt has been widely discredited, by religious and non-religious groups because he was such a crank. There is absolutely no evidence at all of his version of the exodus as supported by Seti and photizo in this thread. The petroglyphs that Seti provided the images to predate the biblical exodus as spouted by Wyatt and his supporters by a fairly massive margin.
