Was there an Exodus?

Many are sure that one of Judaism’s central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.

Jul 09, 2017
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For some time, those informed by theological liberalism have taught that intellectually sophisticated readers don’t read Bible stories literally.  The text speaks to us in symbolic terms.

Take for example, the story of the Exodus:  ‘God’s voice is in the message of the exodus story, not in its supposed facts, and that message, once shorn of its mythological baggage, is only strengthened.’

The problem with this line of argument, of course, is that literal meanings always undergird figurative ones in the genre of historical narrative.  There is no sense that the Exodus story is anything but historical narrative, and even if it were otherwise, what precisely would it symbolise?

This study suggests new evidence for this historicity of the Exodus narrative.

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