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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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.