פורום ארץ הצבי

Recently, in his Velikovsky's Sources, Bob Forrest took up the el-Arish text again and, quite independently, made many of the same points made earlier by Margolis: that there is no mention of fleeing Israelites, only of invaders, that the pharaoh is not drowned, he becomes ''a tower of strength,'' that ''Pekharti is the place where Seb seizes Tefnut by force, not, as V. Has it, the place where pharaoh catches up with the 'evil doers','' 17 and that whereas V. Has the hurricane and the darkness, the pursuit to Pekharti, and the events at the Place of the Whirlpool, as connected incidents in the life of the same pharaoh, Taoui Thom, the shrine itself has them as distinct incidents in the lives of three different pharaohs