Elie Wiesel Quotes About Exodus

Quotes about: Exodus

• If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Moving, Sea

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

  Elie Wiesel

  Issues, Historical, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, Knows

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• That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, No Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• [Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Yams, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

  Elie Wiesel

  Song, Passion, Yams

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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