An Israelite of the tribe of Levi, raised as a member of the Egyptian royal family but exiled for murder, Moses unexpectedly encounters God in the desert. The Lord speaks to him from the burning bush in Exodus, revealing his name to be "I Am." Sent to Pharaoh to demand the Israelites’ freedom, Moses would initiate a great drama: the plagues that would befall Egypt, the institution of the Passover (or "Seder") meal, and the flightof the Israelites from their enslavement and into the wilderness.

While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.

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A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.