Daily Podcasts Video Research

The Passover story isn't true. It's something better.

JL;DR SUMMARY Binyamin Zev Wolf explores the enduring power and significance of the Passover story, regardless of its questioned historical accuracy. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

IdentityHistoryPassoverCommunityJewsMythSederExodusLiberationCanaanites

Places mentioned

Washington, Washington DC, United States
"Two-thirds of George Washingtons eulogies compared him to Moses."
United States
"Look at America, for example: During the American Revolution, British rule was likened to Pharaoh by people like Thomas Paine and the then-president of Yale University, Ezra Stiles."
Egypt
"Maybe there was a historical core to the Exodus story, like a small group of Canaanite slaves escaping Egypt, or perhaps the myth arose because Egypt once controlled Canaan, and the story reflects Egypt losing its grip during the Bronze Age collapse."
Israel
"Help us make more people smarter about Israel and the Jewish world."
Palestinian Territories
"The prevailing theory among historians is that the Jews were originally a tribe of Canaanites who lived in Canaan."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 49237
Cairo Source ID 36
Retrieved 2025-04-13 05:30:48 UTC
Curated 2025-04-13 08:30:42 UTC