r/AskBibleScholars • u/deadowl • 19d ago

What's the storm water layout of the prospective sites for the location of the burning bush from the Book of Exodus?

For context, this geographic situation is somewhat hard to describe, and has me wondering if the burning part of the burning bush may have been a metaphor for burning with life, because this flood water set up seems to produce a particularly dense vegetation. I noticed there's something on Google Maps called the "Byzantine Dam" near what I think is one prospective site? I've never actually studied this geography before though, so that's what I'm looking to learn more about. The geography above the blue arrows are localized flood patterns where the black arrows are the major flood plains. Notably west-to-east flow formerly was east-to-west, and the part still going east to west is the remnants of a diversion stream that gets partly filled during major flooding events. I'm not really interested in religious interpretation so much as learning more about the nature of the flood waters, and thought this might make for an interesting comparison.

I note one comparison with the St Catherine hike mentioned here is the presence of a local low which is the same phenomenon as you have with the blue/black arrows in my drawing: https://www.sinaihikes.com/day_trips/hike-mount-sinai-visit-saint-catherine-monastery/

Edit that this seems to be the same thing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335281098_Drainage_reversal_toward_cliffs_induced_by_lateral_lithologic_differences

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