One small correction I would like to make to my last post and that is where I referred to "... a parting of the waves for certain people". I should, of course, have said "a parting of the ways".
Perhaps it was a Freudian slip on my part since we were talking here about Abraham/Moses/Jacob as a single person and in the great Cecil B DeMille film the Ten Commandments, Moses played by the American actor Charlton Heston did indeed 'part the waves' of the Red Sea in spectacular fashion. The C's seemed to think it was a lot less spectacular though and may have had more to do with the tidal wave induced by the explosion of Thera sucking the sea out. The special effects seen in the movie (pre-CGI) were rather ruined for me when I visited Universal Studios in the 1980's and found the scene had been shot using a much smaller scale tank of water, where the waves may have just about have reached up to your waist. Which proves it is best not to look behind the curtain if you want to go on believing in the magic.
See The Ten Commandments (1956 film) - Wikipedia
Perhaps it was a Freudian slip on my part since we were talking here about Abraham/Moses/Jacob as a single person and in the great Cecil B DeMille film the Ten Commandments, Moses played by the American actor Charlton Heston did indeed 'part the waves' of the Red Sea in spectacular fashion. The C's seemed to think it was a lot less spectacular though and may have had more to do with the tidal wave induced by the explosion of Thera sucking the sea out. The special effects seen in the movie (pre-CGI) were rather ruined for me when I visited Universal Studios in the 1980's and found the scene had been shot using a much smaller scale tank of water, where the waves may have just about have reached up to your waist. Which proves it is best not to look behind the curtain if you want to go on believing in the magic.
See The Ten Commandments (1956 film) - Wikipedia