In Ani Maamin Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith Rabbi Joshua Berman states on pages 52 – 54:
Many details of the Exodus story do strikingly appear to reflect the realities of late second-millennium Egypt, the period when the Exodus would most likely have taken place – and they are the sort of details that a scribe living centuries later and inventing the story afresh would have been unlikely to know:
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