I've just finished 'expeditions' and am immensely impressed by zs's persistence in getting to see various places in spite of the recalcitrance, paranoia and 'caution' of the military and government overseers of those ancient sites.
how absolutely frustrating to not be able to land to see up close that seeming craft on top of what he reckons to be the real mt. sinai! he shows a couple of photos taken from the airplane.
but he and his group did get to see the rock - 'the great and sacred foundation stone, standing where abraham was tested, where the holy of holies of solomon's temple was...'
maybe i'm carping, but i have difficulty with the word 'sacred'. and zs's sense that yahweh is someone more special than the anunnaki.
i understand being in awe at the ancientness of ancient sites, at the sense of history, at the obvious grandeur of the ancient buildings. but to call a place sacred because that was where someone asked a man to sacrifice his son as a sign of his obedience!!! and that man was prepared to do just that. gawd!
and on the his last chapter about the ark, has anyone read laurence gardner's 'lost secrets of the sacred ark'?
