For more than four decades, biblical experts have tried to place
the story of Exodus into historical context--without success. What
could explain the Nile turning to blood, insects swarming the land,
and the sky falling to darkness? Integrating biblical accounts with
substantive archaeological evidence, "The Parting of the Sea" looks
at how natural phenomena shaped the stories of Exodus, the Sojourn
in the Wilderness, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Barbara
Sivertsen demonstrates that the Exodus was in fact two separate
exoduses both triggered by volcanic eruptions--and provides
scientific explanations for the ten plagues and the parting of the
Red Sea. Over time, Israelite oral tradition combined these events
into the Exodus narrative known today.
Skillfully unifying textual and archaeological records with
details of ancient geological events, Sivertsen shows how the first
exodus followed a 1628 B.C.E Minoan eruption that produced all but
one of the first nine plagues. The second exodus followed an
eruption of a volcano off the Aegean island of Yali almost two
centuries later, creating the tenth plague of darkness and a series
of tsunamis that "parted the sea" and drowned the pursuing Egyptian
army. Sivertsen's brilliant account explains inconsistencies in the
biblical story, fits chronologically with the conquest of Jericho,
and confirms that the Israelites were in Canaan before the end of
the sixteenth century B.C.E.
In examining oral traditions and how these practices absorb and
process geological details through storytelling, "The Parting of
the Sea" reveals how powerful historical narratives are transformed
into myth.
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