myth interpretation · myth_sea_crossing_escape_motif
Sea crossing as deliverance and boundary-crossing motif
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: mainstream literary reading with historical debate. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Research assessment
tests
- Does a proposed route fit the Hebrew place-names and textual layers?
- Are route identifications contemporary or later?
- Can an environmental mechanism be independently dated?
important caveat
Literary function does not rule out a memory of a real crossing or escape, but no route is treated as proven.Evidence and sources
- informs · proposes interpretation
The Exodus as Memory, Myth and History — Hendrik Bosman (2014)Supports literary-memory reading.
Locator: Exodus memory and myth - informs · proposes interpretation
Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition — James K. Hoffmeier (1999)Provides historical-setting alternatives.
Locator: geography and route chapters