Along with many researchers, Cline bases this date in part on the Biblical reference to the city of Rameses, which he assumes to be the city of that name built by the pharaoh Rameses II at about 1250 BCE. He also thinks this date fits with the destruction a few decades later “of a ...
In the tenth year of his mission, Mohammed told his uncle Abu Taleb, that God had revealed to him his displeasure against the covenant of the Koreish, and had sent a worm to destroy every part of the bond, except that which contained, “ In thy name, 0 God!” The Greeks had called...