The Exodus

Uncover the actual historical past of the Exodus and why it issues.

Biblical students, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary students, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it.  Unable to search out bodily proof till now, many archaeologists and students declare this mass migration is only a story, not historical past.  Others oppose this conclusion, defending the biblical account.

Like a detective on an intricate case nobody has but solved, pioneering Bible scholar and bestselling creator of Who Wrote the Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman cuts by means of the noise — the intense research and the wild theories — merging new findings with new perception.  From a spectrum of disciplines, state-of-the-art archeological breakthroughs, and recent discoveries inside scripture, he brings actual proof of a historic foundation for the exodus — the historical past behind the story.  The biblical account of hundreds of thousands fleeing Egypt could also be an exaggeration, however the exodus itself will not be a delusion.

Friedman doesn’t cease there.  Recognized for his capacity to make Bible scholarship accessible to readers, Friedman proceeds to disclose how a lot is at stake after we discover the historicity of the exodus.  The implications, he writes, are monumental.  We study that it turned the starting-point of the formation of monotheism, the defining idea of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Furthermore, we study that it precipitated the foundational ethic of loving one’s neighbors — together with strangers — as oneself.  He concludes, the precise exodus was the cradle of worldwide values of compassion and equal rights as we speak.