In the Exodus story he shows himself to be a warrior and soon thereafter a lawgiver and liege.

He contended that Venus caused most of the strange events of the Exodus story.

The old cry, familiar to us from the Exodus stories, now goes up again.

The Exodus story reminds us that human beings can transform themselves and their situations.

The Exodus story prepares us for all that.

At Passover, children carry matzo in a white sack and act out the Exodus story.

The chronology of the Exodus story likewise underlines its essentially religious rather than historical nature.

The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred.

While there are scholars who consider the Exodus story to be "folk tales," the commentary observed, "this is a minority view."

Most Biblical experts downplay the Exodus story, however, because they are not certain of its historical reality or, if true, when it occurred.