Sir:
Rod Hacking (‘Eternal Life: If Only’, Autumn 2025) writes: ‘The Bible claims more than 600,000 men crossed the Red Sea but again there is no historical foundation for these stories, nor, alas, for the forty-year sojourn in the wilderness. Of any of this, archaeology has found no trace.’
He is plainly unaware of the recent findings in western Saudi Arabia described in the book Mount Sinai in Arabia by Joel Richardson, published in 2019 by Winepress Media, which describes very relevant findings, with photographs, which strongly confirm the biblical narrative.
John Gordon