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defeat. He says he showed the pillar to officials of the Saudi Arabian<br />

Government, who removed it.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Exodus and effects of Hekla III would have been closely<br />

associated in the minds of the scribes who seem to have recorded some<br />

elements the story of Exodus in about 966BCE. However, Exodus 15:<br />

16-17 may be the only part of the story written in early times as it is has<br />

close parallels in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Conversely, Exodus 13:28 to<br />

15:22 appear neither in the Dead Sea Scrolls nor in Greek Corpus LXX<br />

Septuagint of about the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus in 250BCE.<br />

All this confusion is because the Jewish alphabet did not develop<br />

until after 1000 BCE, no Jewish history was committed to writing before<br />

the ninth century BCE and very little history existed before Mishnaic<br />

Hebrew or Assyrian-Hebrew in 725 BCE. 383 Reliable Jewish history only<br />

began sometime in the period between 650BCE, when the Babylonians<br />

overthrew the Assyrians, and 539BCE when the Persians conquerored the<br />

Babylonian empire and Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Israel.<br />

During this hundred years of upheaval, the Jewish priests incorporated<br />

many Babylonina myths into the texts. Ezekiel rewrote Exodus about the<br />

time Josiah (640 to 609BCE) sacked the Edomite shrine of Bethel<br />

because the Edomites had sided with the Babylonians against Judah.<br />

Ezekiel excised the Calebite Book of Jasher because it showed Edom as<br />

the original religion, still practiced on high places instead of in<br />

Jerusalem’s Temple. 384<br />

<strong>The</strong> phenomena of the desert sojourn in Exodus 14:19-21 are very<br />

much under suspicion as late insertions because these contrived verses<br />

encode the seventy-two-letter name of God:<br />

WHW YLY SYT OLM MHSh LLH AKH KHTh HZY ALK LAW<br />

HHO YZL MBH HRY HQM LAW KLY LWW PhHL NLK YYY MLH ChHW<br />

NThH HAA YRTh ShAH RYY AWM LKB WShR YChW LHCh KWQ MND<br />

ANY HOS RHO YYZ HHH MYK WWL YLH SAL ORY OShL MYH WHW<br />

DNY HChSh OMM NNA NYTh MBH PhWY NMM YYL HRCh MTzR WMB<br />

YHH ONW MChY DMB MNQ AYO ChBW RAH YBM HYY MWM<br />

Both the Zohar and Rashi’s twelfth century CE Bachir discuss<br />

this encoding of the name. <strong>The</strong> relevant verses and their translations are:<br />

WYSO MLAK HALHYM HHLK LPhNY MChNH YShRAL WYLK<br />

MAChRYHM WYSO OMWD HONN MPhNYHM WYOMD MAChRYHM:<br />

And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,<br />

removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from<br />

before their face, and stood behind them.<br />

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