While the Skies Were Falling: The Exodus and the Cosmos

This witty, scholarly and altogether splendid book will have you rethink everything you thought you knew about the Bible and what was going on then; about the first verses of Genesis and about the documented extrabiblical evidence for the Exodus; about Velikovsky, Newton, Einstein, Freud and Darwin; about Maimonides and Spinoza's unfortunate misunderstanding of the biblical text. We all have seriously misunderstood the biblical text. This book relates how that misunderstanding came about. The author says: "The empirical evidence speaks for itself. This compendium merely gathers and organizes the material." This book is particularly important because the physical sciences have validated previously discredited readings of the bible. Celestial mechanics, cosmology and physics along with the evidence from stratigraphy and recent advances in technology have merged to disclose the required profound changes in our thinking about the bible as understood by all Western religious traditions. And about the world really! Professor Robert Seltzer wrote: "Powerful and provocative." Martin Sieff wrote: "Masterful. A joy. The world has been waiting for your book for over 60 years."