Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Rocks (was Re: HEB 6:4-9 STUDY) Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 01:08:03 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article horsch@cs.ubc.ca (Michael Horsch) writes: >Even the rock which Moses struck can be interpreted as a covenant: >a promise for salvation. And didn't Moses have to go back up the >mountain because he smashed the first version of the commandments >in anger? Another strike to the "rock". I recently read a book entitled "The Bible as History". (If I recall correctly that was the title. It apparantly was a translation of a book written in German.) In any case, the author claims that water from a stone is quite possible in that region, and is a fairly well known phenonmenon. Let me see if I can remember the explanation. Start with a stone with a slowly flowing spring. Mineral deposits build up as the water evaporates. Eventually, the deposits block the spring entirely. Strike this stone (for instance with a shovel) the deposits break off, the spring is uncovered, and water flows from the stone. If there's enough interest, I'll bring in the book, and get the actual explanation. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton