Reed Sea

The Reed Sea (or Sea of Seaweed, Sea of Reeds) is a proposed translation of the biblical phrase Yam Suph (Hebrew Name 1| יַם-סוּף ), a phrase traditionally understood to refer to the Red Sea. In particular, 'Reed Sea' has been suggested as a possible undersanding of "Yam Suph" in those locations which refer to the Israelite Crossing of the Red/Reed Sea, as told in Exodus 13-15.

Location

Various proposals have been made for the location of this conjectural body of water: One suggestion is that it was a large lake close to the Red Sea, which has since dried up due to the Suez Canal, specifically in the Suez valley next to the Sinai Peninsula and north of the Gulf of Aqaba.Fact|date=September 2008 Another suggestion is that the Reed Sea is Sabħat al Bardawīl, a large lagoon on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula.Fact|date=September 2008

ee also

* Yam Suph
*Passage of the Red Sea
*Thera (Santorini) eruption Association with the Exodus
*The Exodus Decoded
*Suez Canal
* Cite news
url=http://www.crivoice.org/yamsuph.html
title=The Yam Suph: Red Sea or Sea of Reeds? A reasonably even-handed discussion of the translation alternatives.