The Old Testament account of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, their wilderness wanderings, and their conquest of Canaan includes numerous details—theological, political, historical and social—difficult to reconcile with what we infer from other sources. What really happened? Was there an exodus? What people were involved? How was Canaan “conquered”? Is Moses a historical figure? We will explore these and related questions. Our orientation will be a secular treatment of the bible using modern discoveries in archeology, anthropology, and linguistics—just as scholars might treat any complex work of historical literature that is the product of several authors who lived at different times and wrote with differing purposes.
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Earlier Event: October 13
Thursday Nonfiction Book Club
Later Event: October 20
Fiction Book Club