Exodus Important book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible outlining Israel’s departure from bondage in Egypt and subsequent travel through the wilderness, as led by God through the intercession of the prophet Moses. Although no Egyptian historical records tell of the parting of the Red Sea and Israel’s escape from captivity, the New Oxford Annotated Bible claims
There can be little doubt that the story rests upon actual historical occurrences” (1991, p. 69).
Other respected, mainstream scholars concur that while it was once fashionable to give too much credence to the supposed historicity of Jewish scriptures and later, to conversely discount them as sheer myth
It is reasonable to believe that a good part of the biblical stories have a historical background” (Mircea Eliade, Ioan Couliano and Hillary S. Wiesner, The Eliade Guide to World Religions, New York: HarperCollins, 1991, p. 169).
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