There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.