The Red Sea Miracle - Patterns of Evidence presentation by Steve Law (Israel's Exodus from Egypt)

The crossing of the RED SEA is one of the greatest miracles of the BIBLE. Today, widely different ideas are proposed for the location and scale of the journey out of Egypt and across the sea. This debate brings up questions such as how far and fast were the Israelites capable of traveling, does the biblical text really describe a mighty sea being split, and what kind of miracles would be required at the various sites proposed? Is the standard view ignoring important biblical information about God's involvement? A patterns approach points to a biblical miracle that was awesome beyond imagination.
In this presentation, Steve Law of "Patterns of Evidence" team discusses points raised in "The Red Sea Miracle" film, using what is termed "Egyptian vs Hebrew" approach and following the five main steps of Israel's journey to the Red Sea crossing, including:
1. Departure Point
2. Direction
3. Desert
4. Detour to a Dead End
5. Deep Sea
This includes addressing questions such as:
Which Sea was crossed?
How many Israelites?
Can you get to almost million males in the years in Egypt?
Which desert / wilderness was crossed?
How many days does it take to cross the desert?
What do other historians, like Josephus, say?
What about Egyptian toponyms?
Was the sea shallow or deep?
For more on the PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE film series, including The Red Sea Miracle, visit patternsofevid...
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Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle" is a 2020 documentary film in two parts, directed by Tim Mahoney and sequel to "Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy" and "Patterns of Evidence: Exodus". It explores the viewpoints of modern-day scholarship regarding the parting of the Red Sea in the Book of Exodus. Based on his interviews with numerous scholars, egyptologists and religious thinkers (including Barry J. Beitzel, Manfred Bietak, Hershel Shanks, Manis Friedman, Colin Humphreys, David Rohl, Duane Garrett, James Hoffmeier, Donald Redford, Jason Derouchie, Glen Fritz and others). Tim Mahoney presents two models of thought for the event: the "Egyptian model" (smaller scale) and the "Hebrew model" (larger scale).
We thank Tim Mahoney, Steven Law and the Patterns of Evidence team for the years of work, research and production of the film series and supporting content.
We look forward to the next films in the series focusing on the journey towards Mount Sinai, the wonderings in the wilderness, and entering the promised land.
This presentation was originally streamed for TCCSA: Twin Cities Creation Science Association - • The Red Sea Miracle - ...

[@Markver1]

Where does the geographic name “Red Sea“ in English come from if it is “Yam Suph/Sea of Reeds” in the Hebrew writings? Purportedly it is a murky translation from Ancient Greek sources.
The Common Sense question is could it be that the Gulf of Aqaba and the greater Red Sea was named in antiquity for it’s proximately and relation to the land of Edom?
“Yam” means ‘sea’.
“Suph” typically translated as ‘reeds’ can also be translated as ‘end’, ‘terminus’, ‘to come to an end/point’.
The northern end of the sea terminates at the land of Edom.
Edom in Hebrew means ‘red’.
Hence, the sea of Edom is The Red Sea.

[@501Mobius]

Red Sea comes from the translation of Yam Suf to be ερυθράν θάλασσαν which is the Greek Erythra Thalassa. Or what we call the Red Sea. Most likely the translators didn't know the geology that was be instilled with the name Yam Suf. There were reed lakes to the east of Egypt. In addition on the route to Midian at the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba there was a salt marsh which would also qualify as a Reed Sea or Yam Suf. Moses could of camped near both and would rightly call them Yam Suf.
patternsofevidence.com/2021/04/09/moses-path-through-the-red-sea/

[@501Mobius]

So 603,550 males 20 and older? You missed the connection that there were only 22,273 first born males of all ages.
That is over 27 males 20 years and older per couple. That is over 54 children male and female 20 and older per couple. The number of children under 20 would be at that average another 27-30 per couple. So over 80 children per couple. Does that sound logical?
David Rohl has come up with that eleph is actually aleph which is an officer as in 'commanders' of thousands and 'commanders' of hundreds. So the alephs are individual officers. (If this is the Hebrew approach it should be familiar with 'aleph'.)
This doesn't work completely and actually should be a mixture of eleph and aleph because Moses sends a thousand men from each tribe to fight the Midianites. Each tribe should then have at least 1000 men. They had 1000 years to cook the books, that is how Moses does the math.
And don't forget they had two censuses 40 years apart. And the second census had fewer men than the first so their growth rate is far from spectacular.