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A 10 page research paper that addresses 2 principal questions regarding the Book of Exodus: the location of the Red Sea crossing and the date when this occurred. The writer explores the debate on these questions, as well as evidence that the crossing occurred. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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back into Egypt to once more resume their role as chattel. Moses, as their leader, hears the voice of God telling him to raise his staff and stretch forth his
arm over the sea and that this will divide the waters and allow his people to pass on dry ground. Certainly, the parting of the Red Sea is one of
the most dramatic miracles recounted in scripture. But did it actually happen? And, is so, when did it happen and where? Did it happens has scripture indicates? These questions constitute
an ongoing and very complex debate among biblical scholars. There are a considerable number of biblical scholars who doubt that the stories of the Old Testament that relate the
history of Israel ever occurred. Robert Coote of the San Francisco Theological Seminary has said that "The period of the patriarchs, exodus, conquest or judges as devised by the writers
of Scriptures...never existed."1 However, opposing this school of thought are scholars such as Kenneth Kitchen, James Hoffmeier and a number of others who are meticulously gathering evidence that points to
the opposite conclusion, which is that the Judaic scriptures that refer to the history of Israel do have a basis in fact.2 The Judaic scriptures were not written as a
history text. Intermixed with Old Testament recounting of events in the history of the Hebrew people are directions for "religious observances, legal practices, and cultic institutions," as well as fulfilling
the purposes of part calendar and liturgical handbook.3 As this suggests, the story of the Israels escape from Egyptian bondage in the Book of Exodus is meant as theology, not
history. However, this does not rule out the possibility that historical fact is mixed in with the theological message. The location of the crossing Cambridge professor Colin Humphreys believes that
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