A Bible Scholar Looks at BAR’s Coverage of the Exodus

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Recent issues of BAR have covered a wide range of views regarding the Israelites’ servitude in Egypt, the parting of the “Red Sea” (the “Reed Sea” in Hebrew), and the route of the Exodus.a The authors were, in the main, archaeologists, linguists and experts in Near Eastern studies. Perhaps it would be appropriate to allow a Bible scholar to attempt to illuminate some of the problems from his special perspective. We all know about the paucity of archaeological evidence concerning the Exodus. As a result, this sparse evidence has little explanatory value. But something deeper is wrong with the […]

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Footnotes

“The Exodus and The Crossing of the Red Sea, According to Hans Goedicke,” BAR 07:05, by Hershel Shanks; “A Critique of Professor Goedicke’s Exodus Theories,” BAR 07:05, by Charles Richard Krahmalkov; “How Not to Create a History of the Exodus—A Critique of Professor Goedicke’s Theories,” BAR 07:05, by Eliezer D. Oren.

The isolation implied by the number 40 has survived etymologically in the word “quarantine.”

By historiosophy, I mean the philosophy, in the widest sense of the word, which lies beneath the treating of history and the writing about historical events.