This is not to suggest that Israel\u2019s folkloric tradition about the Exodus has no<\/i> connection to any historical event. It is often overlooked that Israelites could have experienced being \u2018slaves of the Egyptians\u2019 without ever having left Canaan. A mythologized folktale that combined a memory of liberation from slavery with the classic language of creation by God\u2019s splitting of waters to symbolize the creation of a new people might be sufficient to account for what we find in Israel\u2019s traditions.<\/p>\n The Exodus from Egypt, had it occurred in literal fashion as described in the Bible, would have been (at the very least) ancient Egypt\u2019s \u201cSeptember 11th\u201d. Even if it did not wipe out every single firstborn child, and the cattle, not to mention Pharaoh\u2019s army, even an event that decimated (in the literal or metaphorical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6218074666654025347?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")