Did Moses part the Red Sea or walk through ankle deep water?
First of all if you look at a map, it is clear that the Hebrews did not cross the Red Sea. The Sea of Reeds (in Hebrew Yâm-Sûph) is often mistranslated as the “Red Sea”. What most likely happened is that the Hebrews, who were slaves and did not have wagons or horses, walked through a swampy area or “sea of reeds”. The Egyptians chasing after them in wheeled chariots got bogged down in the swamp. They gave up and let them go. The story became amplified with time as all legends develop (watch that sceen in Finding Nemo for an example). It is interesting that there is no record or suggestion of the “Moses/Exodus” events in the Hebrew Bible in Egyptian writing (they were notorious record keepers) Do some research on “manna”. It still exists today. Some of these miracles have explanations.
We now know that it was the Sea of Reeds and not the Red Sea. It the theory that has been on the discovery Chanel is correct that all of Moses miracles were natural disasters due to the volcano eruption, they also speculated that it could have been a tsunami that sucked back the water in the sea of reeds and then sent back a large wave when the Egyptians were crossing. I’m not sure if it was ankle deep back then but probably not real deep.
