After the Israelites fled Egypt, Pharaoh reconsidered his decision to release them. On the edge of the Red Sea, the Israelites looked back to see the Egyptian army coming down upon them, setting the scene for one of Moses’s great miracles: the parting of the Red Sea. Moses would lead the Chosen People to Mount Sinai, where he would speak to God as if face to face, and where God would give him the Ten Commandments to be kept within the Ark of the Covenant, sealing his covenant anew with the Israelite people.

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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