Comments on: Shlomo Sand speaks on The Invention Of The Jewish People http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/16/shlomo-sand/ Creating people's geographies Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:27:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ralf ellis http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/16/shlomo-sand/#comment-47579 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:14:29 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=9638#comment-47579 Mr Sand is wrong. The answer to the problem of the lack of archaeology for the Exodus, is that there were two exoduses (as recorded by the Egyptian historian Manetho).

The main Exodus as we would know it, was the Exodus of some 500,000 Hyksos Egyptians from Avaris (Pi-Ramesse) to Jerusalem in about 1590 BC. This is a historical event, and it accords very closely to the entire biblical description of an Exodus – including the record of darkness, hail, ash and plagues (caused by the eruption of Thera/Santorini).

The second exodues was the smaller exodus of 80,000 ‘lepers and maimed priests, according to Manetho. This was undoubtedly the exodus of Pharaoh Akhenaton and his Amarna followers in about 1320 BC. It was Akhenaton’s brother Tuth-Moses, who was recorded in the Torah as the leader of this exodus.

See Ralph Ellis http://www.edfu-books.com

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]]> By: Carlos Sardiña http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/16/shlomo-sand/#comment-47578 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:49:17 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=9638#comment-47578 An excellent review of Sand’s book by Gabriel Piterberg:

http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2807

]]> By: Max Ajl http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/16/shlomo-sand/#comment-47577 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:46:15 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=9638#comment-47577 Satire, right?

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