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EGYPT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS
HAVING EMERGED FROM THE NILE VALLEY AND THUS OFTEN TERMED,
"THE GIFT OF THE NILE".
ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES OF THE COPTIC CHURCH IN EGYPT, AND
RECORDED IN THE COPTIC SENEXARIUM, THE HOLY FAMILY PROCEEDED
FROM BETHLEHEM TO GAZA, THEN TO EL-ZARANIG, ON TO EL-ARISH,
THROUGH NORTHERN SINAI TO FARMA, THEN EVENTUALLY INTO THE
CAIRO REGION. AFTER THEIR SHORT STAY IN OLD CAIRO, THEY MOVED
SOUTH REACHING THE MODERN CAIRO SUBURB OF "MAADI".
FROM HERE, THEY BOARDED A SAILING BOAT WHICH CARRIED THEM
UP THE NILE TOWARDS FAYOUM - A REGION KNOWN TO JOSEPH.
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THE NILE HAS ALWAYS, AND WILL PROBABLY ALWAYS BE A TRAVEL CORRIDOR
FOR NORTHERN AFRICA. WHILE THE RIVER ITSELF FLOWS TO THE NORTH,
INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, THE PREVAILING WINDS ALONG THE NILE
ARE TO THE SOUTH. THEREFORE, FOR AT LEAST THE LAST 5,000 YEARS,
THE NILE HAS BEEN A GREAT ROUTE, WITH BOATS DRIFTING NORTH,
AND RAISING THEIR SAILS FOR THE RETURN TRIP UPRIVER. SO DOMINANT
IS THE RIVER THAT THE TWO ANCIENT SECTIONS OF EGYPT ARE, CONFUSINGLY,
CALLED UPPER EGYPT AND LOWER EGYPT. UPPER EGYPT IS ACTUALLY
SOUTHERN EGYPT, BECAUSE IT IS "UP RIVER", WHILE NORTHERN
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ABRAHAM
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt
to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis 12:10
JOSEPH
And
Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold
chain about his neck
Genesis 41:41
MOSES
And
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty
in words and in deeds.
Acts 7:22
HOLY FAMILY
...the
angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise,
and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt...
Matt 2:13
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EVEN AS GREAT CHARIOT ARMIES CLATTERED BACK AND FORTH ACROSS
ITS STONY EXPANSES, SINAI PLAYED HOST TO A QUIETER BUT ULTIMATELY
FAR MORE MEMORABLE SET OF EVENTS.
AROUND 1400 BC, MOSES LED THE ISRAELITES THROUGH ITS "GREAT
AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS" ON THE EPIC JOURNEY RECOUNTED
IN EXODUS. THREE THOUSAND YEARS LATER, THE SITES AND THE EPISODES
OF THAT JOURNEY CONTINUE TO STAND AT THE VERY CORE OF THE
HISTORY OF SINAI.
WERE IT NOT FOR A SINGLE, OVERWHELMING BELIEF ENDURING FOR
OVER FIFTEEN CENTURIES, THAT HERE IS THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD,
MT. SINAI WOULD PROBABLY BE A TOPOGRAPHICAL FOOTNOTE.
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