My fall issue of Biblical Archaeology review arrived

[ironglow]

.
  In it was an article I have been awaiting for years, Rachel Hallote takes on the relationship between the Hebrews in Egypt (Gen 37-40).
   For years I have studied about a Group referred to as the Hyksos (Rhymes with "slick-sauce").  The Hyksos were a somewhat esoteric group..foreign people who rose to be an a prominent class of people in Egypt.

  The intriguing thing that has been long known, is that they were forced out of Egypt during the early bronze
 age, from their habitation in the Nile delta.

   Sounds like the same story told by different cultures..with a different term used to describe a people

  Rachel makes a compelling case for the Hyksos being the Hebrew children.   Here is another writer's view. 

     https://blog.logos.com/was-joseph-in-egypt-when-archaeology-and-the-bible-converge/
     

[BUGEYE]

Very interesting.
And speaking of different cultures, while at either the creation museum or the Ark encounter, I forget which, Nancy bought this long book with a fold out that gives Biblical happens and down the fold out chart, gives whats going on in different parts of the world at the same time.
History is a wonderful thing.

[ironglow]

.
  I visited the "Ark Encounter" a couple years ago.  At that  time more construction was going on, so there is even more to do/see the Ark was IMPRESSIVE to say the least !

  When you get to the place, you drive into the parking lot...but you are still about a half mile (est) from the Ark.

   ..But the Ark dominating the scene, over on that hill top! From the parking lot, you take a shuttle bus to the ark..

   I have sailed across the ocean on steel ships, but to see this wooden Ark...still impressed me SO MUCH!

     There were many people there that day, but unlike some public displays, the visitors came "pre sorted" by their common interest.
   Thus, the visitors were more polite and respectful by far, than most open-to-public venues.

  The Creation Museum is some distance away. I didn't visit it, but my son and daughter-in-law said it was also a great stop.

[BUGEYE]

We loved the Ark.
But the creation museum to us was more of a teaching tool for folks who were not completely invested in JESUS.
And for that it was a great place.

When the bus dropped us off at the Ark, we just stood for a while and tried to imagine how those people must have ridiculed Noah and his family.  It took some real faith on Noah's part to keep building that thing.

[ironglow]

We loved the Ark.
But the creation museum to us was more of a teaching tool for folks who were not completely invested in JESUS.
And for that it was a great place.

When the bus dropped us off at the Ark, we just stood for a while and tried to imagine how those people must have ridiculed Noah and his family.  It took some real faith on Noah's part to keep building that thing.

   My experience was very similar...  The visitor stands in the parking lot, looking somewhat upward toward the Ark,  the feeling as you said, is almost palpable...it is an awesome sight!  How the onlookers must have jeered, but still were in awe of such a structure as they had never seen before.

   Between god speaking to Noah and the flood, was 120 years, although actual construction took probably between 60 and 75 years to complete, so the locals may have come to the point where they paid little attention,
  .....until the flood came..