The Miracles of Exodus by Colin Humphreys

Author:Colin Humphreys
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061877315
Publisher: HarperCollins

13. 1. Reeds growing on unreclaimed groud in Eilat, near the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. Herod’s Hotel is in the background.

Then I noticed the soil the reeds were growing in. Thick clay (photograph 13.2, on the next page). How unexpected to find thick clay in an undeveloped part of desert close to the sandy shore of the Gulf of Aqaba. The clay was so clinging that imprints of the soles of my sneakers were left behind in it (see photograph 13.3, on the next page).

I couldn’t help thinking that chariot wheels wouldn’t get far in clay like this. Suddenly my thoughts were disturbed by the noise from a large military truck driving past on the road we had just left. It had clearly come from the Israel-Jordan border and was full of soldiers. It drove past very slowly, and all the soldiers looked at us. However, the truck did not stop but went farther up the road, turned around, and drove slowly past us for a second time, the soldiers again looking at us intensely. Sarah looked at me nervously: “I think we should leave,” she said, so we did.

We returned to Taba in the spring of 2001 to do some more exploring. While walking along the ancient Wadi Masri, now called the Wadi Shlomo (also called Wadi Solomon: Shlomo is the original Hebrew form of the name Solomon), which runs into the Gulf of Aqaba from the west, at a point between Taba and Eilat (see map 12.3, pg. 181), I noticed some more reeds near the entrance to the wadi close to a modern building called the Texas Ranch.

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