Moses parting the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to escape the Egyptians may not have been a miracle after all, a new study suggests.
The parting of the Red Sea appears in the Book of Exodus in The Old Testament of The Bible.
It is the moment when Moses performs the miracle to allow the Israelites to escape from the Pharoh’s men who were in pursuit.
But according to the University of Leicester’s School of Biological Sciences, there were four natural occurrences which could explain the drying of the area.
Students Rebekah Garratt and Rikesh Kunverji claim that negative surges, eastern winds, tidal surges and Rossby Waves may have caused a resurgence of water large enough to allow people to cross the sea by foot.
Writing in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Topics, they said: ‘Investigating into the methods in which the waters may have receded, allowing Moses to cross safely, may be dependent on having ‘perfect’ conditions, but are still physically feasible events.
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