Episode #168: Saudi Arabia and the Mountain of Moses

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

This week we are joined once again by Bob Johnson for the first hour of the show to talk about his experiences in Egypt and Saudi Arabia as a geologist, this time in the context of the subject of the story of Exodus. Bob directed us to watch a short documentary detailing a possible "alternate route" to the legendary Mount Sinai, the Mountain of Moses.

That mountain is commonly thought to be in the Sinai peninsula, but the documentary shows that it may actually be in Saudi Arabia, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Aqaba. There are many features and places besides the mountain itself that seem to match up with the story told in Exodus, lending credence to this possibility.

Bob spent decades working in this area and knows the geology very well, so as we go through the evidence for this alternate possibility, he gives his own thoughts on the pros and cons of the concept.

There is a lot of map work in this part of the show, so we did record some video of Bob pointing to places on the map for the first hour, which you can see if you go to our Youtube channel. Below are links to the documentary itself and a few screenshots of the maps of the area.

Finding the Mountain of Moses documentary

The Red Sea

Gulf of Suez(left) and Gulf of Aqaba(right) on the north end of the Red
Sea

Gulf of Aqaba

Nuweibaa Delta in the Gulf of Aqaba

Straits of Tiran on the southern end of the Gulf of Aqaba

"Split Rock" geological feature in Saudi Arabia

Transcript

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0:00.0	Saudi Arabia and the Mountain of Moses.
0:07.2	You're listening to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.3	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and and girls angels and demons and monsters to
0:23.8	servants to brothers of the serpent podcast coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10
0:28.1	tangent cube of science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient sea bed high atop
0:34.8	the Edwards plateau and uh we got another very special show for you guys this week.
0:41.3	We are joined once again by Bob Johnson.
0:44.7	He contacted, what happened, Kyle?
0:46.9	He contacted you a couple days ago.
0:49.1	Yeah, well, you know, we got the Brew Pastor beers in the mail.
0:52.0	And I was like, you know, maybe i'll contact him about this i was
0:55.5	thinking maybe we'll keep those beers and just never really tell him about it and uh yeah he just
1:00.1	hit me up and i caught was like damn it i have your beers but anyway yeah what's up
1:06.2	it's a cosmic event yeah so welcome back man it it worked perfectly. We got your beers in and you had something
1:14.0	you wanted to come on and share with us. Yeah, yeah. First thing I wanted to give a shout out to the Brewpaster.
1:20.0	Brother, you came through and I really appreciate it. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. My son's
1:23.8	going to love it. Absolutely. Awesome. Yeah, so we are glad to have you back on the show.
1:28.3	And so you recommended that we take a look at a short documentary and we did that.
1:33.3	And that's going to be the main topic and it's about, and you said you've been in this area.
1:38.3	You were like, dude, I've been all over this area, so you want to talk about it.
1:41.3	So we need to tell people what that documentary is because they can check it out too, right?
1:45.3	What was the name of it?
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