U3A Vall Del Pop: Patterns of Evidence – The Moses Controversy
David Rohl returned from his latest study trip to Egypt on March 25 and brought back with him the DVD of the second Patterns of Evidence movie, The Moses Controversy, which has just been premiered nationwide in the USA. The movie had been shown during the two-week Egypt study tour, as evening entertainment after the daily visits to temples, tombs, and whilst in Cairo visiting the Pyramids and Sphinx.
On Monday, April 1 at the Jalon Town Hall, David showed this second movie to those members who had been brave enough to run the gauntlet of the strong rainstorm. The members were enthralled this time by the evidence which has been uncovered in Sinai of turquoisemine engravings of the world’s first alphabet, developed many hundreds of years before the Phoenician alphabet, which had previously been considered the earliest alphabet. This latest discovery has alphabetic letters, which appear to have been developed from Egyptian hieroglyphics, at the time of Joseph, son of Jacob, when he was ruling the country on behalf of Pharaoh. Its discovery therefore supports the Bible’s story of Moses writing the early books of the Bible and, of course, the Ten Commandments, a few generations after Joseph.
As appears usual in studies of Egyptian history, there are detractors who do not accept the Hebrew origins of this alphabet at such an early date, and therefore contest Moses ability to have written the biblical texts. One Israeli ‘expert’ argued that the alphabet had not been developed by an educated man, but by common man, tagged as Beni for the movie. If you believe that you probably still think the world is flat. David Rohl, Egyptology Group leader at the Vall del Pop U3A, gives talks on the first Monday of each month at Jalon Town Hall, usually starting at 11am. Come along and hear the facts about the Egyptian pharaohs and the archaeological finds which support the biblical stories first hand from a world-renowned expert. Email him at egyptology u3a@gmail.com
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