Hey all I have recently come upon a book claiming a man named Emmanuel Anati has found Mt. Sainai and that he has found archeological evidence to back up his claims. So do any Dopers out there know the straight dope on Emmanuel Anati?
Here’s another set of authors who make the same claim:
http://www.centuryone.com/0918-4.html
I’ve read this one; fascinating stuff; they claim they were planning a movie based
on the reearch but I haven’t heard anything since.
The book that BwanaBob references came out in 1998 and Anati’s was first published in 1999. So this isn’t exactly breaking news. And the lack of serious attention since probably means that the scientific community isn’t buying it.
There’s also the slight problem that Moses and all the surrounding events are fictional, so any correspondences with real life are going to be very circumstantial at best.