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I who is director of that library stance, one of them shows Jacob
and holds the chair of Hebrew wrestling with the Angel.
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culture at the university.
Turning back to the map, this
As you tell your children the
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an old Hagadah. There are most fascinating documents he
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has ever viewed. Of course. the
Egyptian bondage, would you other unique editions of the route of the Jews through the
illustrate the history I Hagadah in the library run by wilderness was imagined by the
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where the slaves fleeing Egypt nals---but they are filmed copies anonymous artist. But scholars
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had crossed the Red Sea, the of the originals—on microfilm. have checked the map for its
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tortuous paths they wound
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through the Sinai Desert for 40 of study. research and highly reconstructing their positions
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instead
of
pointing
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the
filmed
Hagadah
vertically
upward
as
our
maps
York University. and ask Prof.
which, in parallel columns, show, is pointed in what we
Abraham I. Katsh. the scholar
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