Plagues of Egypt

Published June 10, 2010

The Plagues of Egypt have been described as supernatural^(c) or an invention or can be explained rationally^(e).

>>Many commentators have sought to offer a natural explanation for the ‘plagues’. One of these was Dr. John F. Marr, then chief epidemiologist for New York City department of health^(h). Sceptics have pointed out that Marr’s explanations require a rare sequence of natural events, some of which were unusual on their own and which occurred over a short time period. All of which just happened to synchronise with Moses’ political plans!<<

The plagues associated with the time of the biblical Exodus have been linked to the 2^nd millennium BC eruption of Thera by many writers including the renowned archaeologist Dr. Angelos Galanopoulos and more recently by Graham Philipsin Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt(originally published as Act of God) ^[⁰³⁴^]and his website^(b). In 1971, R.W. van Bemmelen, the Dutch geologist, suggested that the Biblical Plagues could be linked to the Theran event. Acceptance of this view clearly means that if the eruption of Thera was the inspiration behind Plato’s Atlantis story then the flooding of Atlantis cannot be connected with the biblical Deluge, which occurred much earlier than the Exodus.

>>Siro Trevisanato, a molecular biologist, published The Plagues of Egypt ^[2095] in 2005. In it, he associates the biblical plagues with the eruption of Santorini. He draws on various sources such as ancient Egyptian medical papyri as well as the nature and sequence of the various plagues.<<

However, if the inundation of Atlantis was one of the consequences of the Noachian Flood then the eruption of Thera had nothing to do with Plato’s narrative since it long preceded the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. In other words, it is not possible to link Noah, the Exodus and Thera: at least one of them is unconnected to the other two.

Riaan Booysen has also sought tp link the plagues with the Theran eruption^(a).

Immanuel Velikovsky did not accept the Plagues of Egypt as natural phenomena. “He saw these events as the first manifestation of the early states of a cosmic catastrophe which struck the whole earth and which reached its zenith 52 years later when, as Joshua was pursuing the Canaanites, ‘the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and did not go down about a whole day’.”^(d)

Frank Joseph contends^[¹⁰⁶^][¹⁰⁷^] that the plagues were connected with the destruction of ‘Lemuria’.

^(a) https://www.riaanbooysen.com/historical-moses-plagues-egypt

^(b) http://www.grahamphillips.net/act/act.html

^(c) https://bible.org/seriespage/5-finger-god-exodus-714-1029

^(d) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_velikovsky03.htm

^(e) The Science of the 10 Plagues | Live Science

^(f) The Exodus – Wikipedia *

^(g) [PDF] Six medical papyri describe the effects of Santorini’s volcanic ash, and provide Egyptian parallels to the so-called biblical plagues. | Semantic Scholar *

^(h) (92) The Exodus Syndemic | John S Marr – Academia.edu *