Egypt scholar to lecture on the Exodus

Center for Jewish Culture logoSAN DIEGO COUNTY, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series in Coronado and Scholar Lecture Series in Carlsbad continue their seasons with filmmaker and author James (Jim) D. Long. His lecture titled, The Riddle of the Exodus” will take place in the Shulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Monday, November 17 at 7 p.m. and in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Wednesday, November 19 at 10:30 a.m.

In this talk, Long will compare the extant archaeological records of Egypt with ancient Jewish sources to find startling parallels between them relating to the Exodus. His conclusions will offer a radical new view of this pivotal event in the history of the Jewish people. It is the result of years of research with extensive travel to interview scholars in Israel, Egypt and England to uncover evidence of an epic event that may have precipitated the sudden demise of Egypt’s Golden Age and the end of the 6th Dynasty.

This compelling approach reveals how the aftermath of the catastrophic Ten Plagues are described on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian papyrus, that the pharaoh who enslaved the Hebrews, sat on the throne of Egypt for 94 years and that Egyptologists all agree that the Golden Pyramid Age ended suddenly, leading to the empire’s first woman ruler.

Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. In December, Professor Steven Cassedy will speak on his new book, Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.  Other speakers include professors Joellyn Zollman, and Ibrahim al-Marashi.

The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, co-sponsored by Coronado Friends of CJC and Jewish Federation of San Diego County. All lectures are free and open to the public.

The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of San Diego County and Leichtag Foundation. All lectures are free and open to the public.

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Preceding provided by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, which may be reached at 858-362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.

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