Endnote 57 – Israel in Egypt: The Egyptian Sojourn and the Exodus

As one commentator has observed, “We do the Exodus narrative a profound disservice by uncritically seeking natural interpretations for the clearly miraculous, and it is misguided to supply scientific explanations for such nonhistorical events as the ten plagues of Egypt, the burning bush that spoke to Moses, or the pillars of cloud and fire that accompanied the Israelites in the wilderness.” See Redmount, “Bitter Lives”, pp. 85–86.