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2. Exodus (Uris novel) - Wikipedia

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   608 pages. Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state.

3. The Exodus - Wikipedia

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   The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt' [a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ). The consensus of modern scholars is that the Pentateuch does not ...

4. Sources and parallels of the Exodus - Wikipedia

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   Historical consensus. The consensus of modern scholars is that the Torah does not give an accurate account of the origins of the Israelites. There is no indication that the Israelites ever lived in Ancient Egypt, and the Sinai Peninsula shows almost no sign of any occupation for the entire 2nd millennium BCE (even Kadesh-Barnea, where the Israelites are said to have spent 38 years, was ...

5. People of the Book (novel) - Wikipedia

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   372 pages. ISBN. 978-0-670-01821-5. OCLC. 123912702. People of the Book is a 2008 historical novel by Geraldine Brooks. The story focuses on imagined events surrounding the protagonist and real historical past of the still extant Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the oldest surviving Jewish illuminated texts. [1]

6. Exodus (1960 film) - Wikipedia

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   Exodus. (1960 film) Exodus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film about the founding of the State of Israel. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, the screenplay was adapted by Dalton Trumbo from the 1958 novel of the same name by Leon Uris. The film stars an ensemble cast including Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson ...

7. The Haj (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The book was described by some reviewers as "propaganda." The Haj was a best-seller, reaching second place in the Publishers Weekly best-seller list for hardcover novels in May 1984. Plot summary. The book begins in 1922. The title character is Ibrahim, who becomes the chieftain of a fictitious Palestinian village in that year.