Episode 18 Exodus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
An understanding of Egyptology can completely change the way one reads the Exodus story; and an inscription on the back of the most prominent statue at the Met allows us to appreciate what the biblical plagues were intended to teach.
Text: Exodus 7-10
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