All I have to say is that religious people trying to use science to explain what are supposed to be miracles is so weird to me.
In Sunday School, I described Moses parting the Red Sea the way it's depicted in Prince of Egypt, and our Sunday School teacher goes "oh no, that's just Hollywood, it was probably just low tide, one day a year the tide in some spots of the Red Sea gets so low you can walk across it."
And I remember thinking "then why are we acting like Moses did something magic?"
Showing up while being persued by an army at the right hour on the right day to make use of a crossing that one appears once a year could be construed as a miracle. That said, my understanding is that the Exodus narrative was probably written in ~600bc during the Babylonian exile and the ancient Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt. Apparently there was a concern in the Hebrew exile community that they were becoming too Babylonian and the Exodus narratice was written as a kind of very early nationalist founding myth to try to re-unify the Hebrew peoples. Take this with a grain of salt it's been twenty years since my religion classes.
I'm not translating from the ancient hebrew or anything but the text is pretty clear that in the story moses literally parts the sea. that's a good scientific explanation, but not what it says in the bible. what denomination was this?
All I have to say is that religious people trying to use science to explain what are supposed to be miracles is so weird to me.
In Sunday School, I described Moses parting the Red Sea the way it's depicted in Prince of Egypt, and our Sunday School teacher goes "oh no, that's just Hollywood, it was probably just low tide, one day a year the tide in some spots of the Red Sea gets so low you can walk across it."
And I remember thinking "then why are we acting like Moses did something magic?"
Showing up while being persued by an army at the right hour on the right day to make use of a crossing that one appears once a year could be construed as a miracle. That said, my understanding is that the Exodus narrative was probably written in ~600bc during the Babylonian exile and the ancient Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt. Apparently there was a concern in the Hebrew exile community that they were becoming too Babylonian and the Exodus narratice was written as a kind of very early nationalist founding myth to try to re-unify the Hebrew peoples. Take this with a grain of salt it's been twenty years since my religion classes.
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I'm not translating from the ancient hebrew or anything but the text is pretty clear that in the story moses literally parts the sea. that's a good scientific explanation, but not what it says in the bible. what denomination was this?
Generic American Judaism.
oh lol see there's my christian-centrism, i assumed you were talking about a christian teacher who just didn't care about the "old testament" as much.