Download PDF Th e Parting of the Sea How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus by Barbara j. Sivertsen

Sinopsis

Th e story of the Exodus is one of the best known narratives of Western Civilization. As recounted in the Bible, the Israelites are slaves in ancient Egypt. Moses, an Israelite raised in the Egyptian court as the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter, kills an Egyptian who is mistreating an Israelite slave and is forced to fl ee the country. He arrives in the land of Midian, meets the daughters of the Midianite priest Jethro, marries one of them, and produces two sons. One day, while tending sheep for his father-inlaw on the west side (or the back side, or the far side, depending on how the Hebrew is translated) of the wilderness or the desert, Moses sees a burning bush. Th e odd thing is that the fl ames do not consume the bush, and out of it an angel of God speaks. Th is is the prelude to a series of conversations between Moses and God. God, or Yahweh, wants Moses to return to Egypt and bring Yahweh’s people back to the land promised to their forefather Abraham the land of Canaan.

Content

1. The Exodus, Oral Tradition, and Natural History
2. Dating the Exodus
3. The Coming of the Hyksos
4. The Minoan Eruption 
5. The Plagues, the Exodus, and Historical Reality
6. Moses and the Mountain of God
7. The Sojourn in the Wilderness
8. Meanwhile, Back in Civilization
9. The Destruction of Jericho
10. The Conquest and Settlement of Canaan
11. Back to Egypt
12. Th e Formation of the Exodus Tradition

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