Bible Story Of Red Sea Parting 'May Be True'

[Entropist]

I imagine that most of the stories in the bible have some basis in reality.

For instance the great flood might be based on the possibilty that the Black Sea flooded a few thousand years ago, driving out the inhabitants. When your world is the area you can walk in a day then your whole world has indeed flooded.

Another possibility: The Genesis flood myth was likely derived originally from the epic of Gilgamesh-- and may have been originally based on particularly bad flooding between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But yeah, "the world" for ancient peoples did not necessarily mean the entire globe of the earth (which wasn't considered to be globe-shaped anyway).