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Where Was the Biblical Red Sea?: Examining the Ancient Evidence is unavailable, but you can change that!

Exodus records that the waters of the Red Sea (or Reed Sea) opened up to deliver Israel and plummeted down to destroy their Egyptian pursuers. But if the Red Sea cannot be located, can we trust the claims of the Bible? Some have suggested relocating the events. Others suggest they never happened at all. In Where Was the Biblical Red Sea? Beitzel challenges popular alternatives and defends the...

Kadesh-barnea, and then attempting to bypass the land of Edom en route to the promised land (Num 14; 21; Deut 1; 2); (3) to Solomon’s naval venture to the land of Ophir (1 Kgs 9); or (4) to a place where cries of disaster could be heard, resulting from destruction inflicted upon the land of Edom (Jer 49). None of these seven texts manifests a context of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and in particular at the water of yam sûf. But a critical issue arises with this hypothesis when it is subsequently
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