David Wolpe

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David Wolpe

Who says you can't get a Jew and an Arab to agree on anything?

Here a link to the NY Times article about what Dr Zahi Hawass has found and not found in Sinai desert. Dr Hawass said Exodus is a myth.

David Wolpe was rated by Newsweek as the number 1 pulpit rabbi in America. Below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on Wolpe dealing with his views on Exodus.

On Passover 2001, Wolpe told his congregation that "the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all." Casting doubt on the historicity of the Exodus during the holiday that commemorates it brought condemnation from congregants and several rabbis (especially Orthodox Rabbis). The ensuing theological debate included whole issues of Jewish newspapers such as the Jewish Journal in Los Angeles and editorials in the Jerusalem Post, as well as an article in the Los Angeles Times. Critics asserted that Wolpe was attacking Jewish oral history, the significance of Passover and even the First Commandment. Wolpe asserted that he was arguing that the historicity of the events should not matter, since he believes faith is not determined by the same criteria as empirical truth. Wolpe argues that his views are based on the fact that no archaeological digs have produced evidence of the Jews wandering the Sinai Desert for forty years, and that excavations in Israel consistently show settlement patterns at variance with the Biblical account of a sudden influx of Jews from Egypt.

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