![]() ![]() We can learn about the society where the ancient Israelites, and later Jesus and the Apostles, lived through the modern discoveries that provide us clues.īiblical Archaeology Review is the guide on that fascinating journey. Get more biblical Archaeology: Become a Member Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imaginationĭoes the Merneptah Stele Contain the First Mention of Israel? Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero? This Bible History Daily feature was originally published on February 14 2014.Įxodus in the Bible and the Egyptian Plagues Subscribers: Read more about the evidence at Har Karkom and in Saudi Arabia in the full article “Where Is Mount Sinai? The Case for Har Karkom and the Case for Saudia Arabia” by Hershel Shanks as it appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Sinai continues to be debated in scholarship. ![]() This distinctive painted ware had even made its way north to an Egyptian temple at Timna in the Negev Desert-but not into the Sinai.īecome a Member of Biblical Archaeology Society Now and Get More Than Half Off the Regular Price of the All-Access Pass! Explore the world’s most intriguing Biblical scholarshipĭig into more than 9,000 articles in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s vast library plus much more with an All-Access pass. ![]() In contrast to the archaeologically empty Sinai during the traditional date of the Exodus, the region of northwest Saudi Arabia was thriving in the 12th century-as attested by the proliferation of Midianite ware, pottery associated with the Midianites. Horeb–one of two names for the Mountain of God in the Bible) and there received God’s call to take the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 3:1,17). While tending to the flock of Jethro, the priest of Midian who became Moses’ father-in-law, Moses came to “the Mountain of God” (Mt. In the Bible, Moses fled to Midian after escaping Egypt (Exodus 2:15). Sinai was not in the Sinai Peninsula, but in Midian in northwest Saudi Arabia. ![]() Shanks proposes that we reexamine another theory: the “Midianite Hypothesis.” According to this theory, Mt. The international conference was hosted by Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. Watch Emmanuel Anati’s lecture “Har Karkom: Archaeological Discoveries on a Holy Mountain in the Desert of Exodus” and other full-length lectures from the Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination conference, which addressed some of the most challenging issues in Exodus scholarship. Anati believes the Biblical authors had been inspired by Har Karkom regardless. Emmanuel Anati prososes that the Exodus should be re-dated to the late third or early second millennium-if the Exodus, as described in the Bible, occurred at all. One major obstacle to this conclusion, Shanks notes, is that the religious center at Har Karkom flourished at least 800 years earlier than the traditional date of the Exodus. It was Har Karkom, Anati suggests, that the Biblical authors envisioned when they referred to Mt. In other rock art pictured in BAR, vertical and curvy lines may represent a staff and snake, recalling the story of Moses’ brother Aaron turning a staff into a snake as he stood before Pharaoh. A rectangular grid divided into ten spaces suggests the Ten Commandments Moses received on Mt. An abundance of rock art can be found at Har Karkom, including some that Emmanuel Anati interprets as Biblical motifs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |