with God and his journey to Canaan, to Moses’ deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage … [is] a brilliant product of the human imagination.”43 That same year, many Jews were dismayed44 when Rabbi David Wolpe, from a Conservative Movement synagogue in Los Angeles, during Passover services stated, “Virtually every modern archaeologist who has investigated the story of the Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it