Word: exodusing
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...visitor stops and remembers that there is more than one Mount Sinai; indeed, there are at least eight spots that could have inspired the tale that grips us all. In spite of the solidity of the rock and the exultation of the climb, the questions arise: Did the Exodus happen? Can the words of the Bible be matched with evidence of deeds? Did Moses even exist...
...imagined Moses' days as a prince of Egypt, they thought mostly of a good education: Moses, they wrote, absorbed all Egypt's learning, both scientific and occult, and spoke 70 languages. More recent commentators and The Prince of Egypt have focused on questions of assimilation and dual identity. But Exodus cuts directly from the infancy story to Moses' fateful moment of outraged ethnic solidarity and justifiable homicide. Pursued by Pharaoh, Moses flees to the land of Midian. There he meets Zipporah, the daughter of the chieftain Jethro (also called Reuel and Hobab), as she draws water from a well. Soon...
...want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?" But now they broke into what Jack Miles, in his book God: A Biography, calls "one of the great, exultant victory songs in all literature," the Song of the Sea, in the 15th chapter of Exodus. An ancient rabbinical commentary elaborated, "Even the sucklings dropped their mothers' breasts to join in singing, yea, even the embryos in the womb joined the melody, and the angels' voice swelled the song...
...this remove, the fate of Los Angeles is a novelty. It's Saturday at the Parthenon and we noble citizens look on as it flashes gory in the sun, our own little Exodus replete with earthquake, fire, flood and riot: tantalizingly apocalyptic. Among the expatriate Angelenos, there might be swaggering or display of battle wounds, an anecdote about the aunt whose Malibu home slid seaward. But the real L.A. is far away, and so is 1992, the year of the riots. Not old enough for an anniversary, the remains lie unexcavated in the rubble of more recent crises...
...president has several big ones coming up. So perhaps the best course is to kick back on Air Force One, relax, suspend disbelief, and take in the spectacle of Paul Newman as an Israeli freedom fighter in Otto Preminger's story of the founding of Israel, "Exodus". Time enough tomorrow to lobby. As the pharaoh says, "So let it be written. So let it be done...