Comments on: The Thera Eruption – New Evidence http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/the-thera-eruption-new-evidence.html The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen Mon, 07 May 2012 01:49:50 -0400 hourly 1 By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/the-thera-eruption-new-evidence.html#comment-1632 Hrafnkell Haraldsson Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:08:21 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1071#comment-1632 I don't remember enough about <i>The Ten Commandments</i>, Makarios. Could be. I'm not sure I could stomach watching it again though. Like the Book of Exodus itself, a blatant piece of anti-Gentilism/Paganism. Anyone out there help us? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller? I don't remember enough about The Ten Commandments, Makarios. Could be. I'm not sure I could stomach watching it again though. Like the Book of Exodus itself, a blatant piece of anti-Gentilism/Paganism. Anyone out there help us? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?

]]> By: Makarios http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/the-thera-eruption-new-evidence.html#comment-1628 Makarios Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:44:20 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1071#comment-1628 Even given an early date for the Exodus (<i>e.g.</i> David Rohl's 1447 BCE), the Minoan eruption is still too early to "explain" the reported events.<br /><br />I may be misrembering, but, in <i>The Ten Commandments</i>, isn't there a scene in which Yul Brynner, after the first nine of the ten plagues, tells Charlton Heston that those plagues could, in fact, be traced back to some natural phenomenon? Indeed, it might have been a volcanic eruption. Even given an early date for the Exodus (e.g. David Rohl's 1447 BCE), the Minoan eruption is still too early to "explain" the reported events.

I may be misrembering, but, in The Ten Commandments, isn't there a scene in which Yul Brynner, after the first nine of the ten plagues, tells Charlton Heston that those plagues could, in fact, be traced back to some natural phenomenon? Indeed, it might have been a volcanic eruption.

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