April
12
/ 2020
READ PART I HERE While a crocodile showdown conjured up in Pharaoh’s court sounds incredible enough, it was only the magical warm-up for a series of 10 curses to befall the Egyptian slavers. As far back as 1844 many parallels between the Passover Plagues and Egyptian texts have been recognized. Scholar Brad C. Sparks has identified more than 90 Egyptian texts that contain Exodus parallels. Meanwhile, Professor Gary Rendsburg has reviewed these parallels in his article ‘Moses the Magician’: “Exodus 1-15 repeatedly shows familiarity with Egyptian traditions: the biblical motifs of the hidden divine name, turning an inanimate object into a reptile, the conversion of water to blood, a spell of 3 days of darkness, the death of the firstborn
