Exodus Movie Analysis

There is no reasonable reason to doubt the story and information the Exodus implies, but I do think the mix up of the movie and the bible of the plagues have some people confused and not knowing what to believe in the overall moral and details in the story. The movie did a good job, in some areas, of trying to get most of the information spot on as it does in the book. Since the book was written a long time ago and is a primary source, it may have a better and accurate outlook of the moral of the story. I am the type of person to try and believe everything the bible implies to me, but one person being able to create all the plagues does seem a little extreme to me. Gods are very powerful and can do just about anything, so that’s the reason I am trying to put my understanding into it. …show more content…
(www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt). According to the Exodus 12:12, all the gods of Egypt would be judged through the tenth and final plague (www.delanceyplace.com). Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather than them explaining them as a wrathful act of vengeful God, the scientists claim the plagues can be attributed to a chain of natural phenomena triggered by changes in the climate and environmental disasters that happened hundreds of miles away (www.delanceyplace.com). Archaeologists now widely believe the plagues occurred at an ancient city of Pi-Rameses on the Nile Delta, which was the capital of Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Rameses the Second, who ruled between 1279 BC and 1213 BC (www.delanceyplace.com). The scientists also claim that the arrival of this algae set in the plagues were set in motion the events that led to the second, third, and fourth plagues and so on