The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman

By Richard Elliott Friedman

The Exodus has turn into a middle culture of Western civilization.  Millions learn it, retell it, and rejoice it.  yet did it happen?

 

Biblical students, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary students, anthropologists, and filmmakers are attracted to it.  not able to discover actual facts previously, many archaeologists and students declare this mass migration is simply a narrative, no longer history.  Others oppose this end, protecting the biblical account.

 

Like a detective on an elaborate case not anyone has but solved, pioneering Bible pupil and bestselling writer of Who Wrote the Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman cuts during the noise — the intense experiences and the wild theories — merging new findings with new insight.  From a spectrum of disciplines, state of the art archeological breakthroughs, and clean discoveries inside scripture, he brings actual proof of a old foundation for the exodus — the background at the back of the tale.  The biblical account of thousands fleeing Egypt can be an exaggeration, however the exodus itself isn't really a myth.

 

Friedman doesn't cease there.  recognized for his skill to make Bible scholarship available to readers, Friedman proceeds to bare how a lot is at stake after we discover the historicity of the exodus.  the results, he writes, are huge.  We examine that it grew to become the starting-point of the formation of monotheism, the defining proposal of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  additionally, we research that it caused the foundational ethic of loving one’s associates — together with strangers — as oneself.  He concludes, the actual exodus was once the cradle of world values of compassion and equivalent rights today.

 

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