parting of the Red Sea
biblical literature
Also known as: crossing of the Red Sea
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commemoration on ʿĀshūrāʾ
DeMille’s “Ten Commandments”
- In Cecil B. DeMille: Films of the 1940s and 1950s: North West Mounted Police to The Ten Commandments
…Israelites leaving Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea), the Oscar-winning special effects, and the larger-than-life performances have made it the film for which DeMille is best remembered.
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Moses
- In Moses: From Goshen to Sinai
The Egyptian army cornered them at the Sea of Reeds (papyrus), which barred their exit to the east. Later Jewish tradition understood the body of water to be the Red Sea, and this erroneous interpretation persists today, even in some of the most recent English translations…
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