Image Credit Providence LIthograph Company/Wikimedia Commons While some depict the Bible’s Passover meal and Jews’ Exodus from Egypt as a fable, archeological and other evidence squares with the Bible’s account.
Tonight begins Passover, or Pasach, celebrated worldwide by Jews. As recounted in Exodus 13:3-10, this ritual meal marks their ancestors’ escape from Egyptian captivity.
About three weeks earlier, Christians celebrated Easter to commemorate Jesus’ Resurrection. Judaism and Christianity share not merely monotheism, but also recount their miraculous foundations as history.
Together they form the moral foundation for Western culture, a foundation that is collapsing, in part due to post-Enlightenment critiques of the historicity of these religions. But, as a careful examination of the historical record will show, these critiques can’t quite justify a wholesale rejection of Judeo-Christian values.Many scholars dismiss the Exodus as a fable. Anthropologists contend that an enormous migrant population together with livestock could not have survived that journey in […]
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