Editing Crossing the Red Sea (section)

=== Wind setdown ===

The Biblical narrative describes a strong east wind. Several researchers have proposed that the land path the Israelites walked on was created by a [[wave setup|wind setdown]].<ref name="DrewsPost">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/08/no-really-there-is-a-scientific-explanation-for-the-parting-of-the-red-sea-in-exodus/|title=No, really: There is a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red Sea in Exodus|date=3 April 2007|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first1=Carl|last1=Drews|first2=Weiqing|last2=Han|access-date=21 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="Drews">{{cite journal |last1=Drews |first1=Carl |last2=Han |first2=Weiqing |title=Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta |url=http://opensky.ucar.edu/islandora/object/articles%3A10312/datastream/PDF/view |journal=PLOS ONE |year=2010 |volume=5 |issue=8 |pages=e12481 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0012481 |pmid=20827299 |pmc=2932978 |bibcode=2010PLoSO...512481D |access-date=25 March 2019|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rawlinson|first=George|title=Ancient Egypt|date=1886|publisher=T. Fisher Unwin|page=264-265}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience |last1=Schulze |first1=Jürgen P. |publisher=Springer |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-319-04768-3 |pages=161–172 |last2=Block |first2=Jessica |last3=Weber |first3=Philip |last4=Levy |first4=Thomas E. |last5=Dawe |first5=Gregory L. |last6=Sparks |first6=Brad C. |last7=DeFanti |first7=Thomas A. |editor-last=Levy |editor-first=Thomas E. |chapter=The WAVE and 3D: How the Waters Might Have Parted |editor-last2=Schneider |editor-first2=Thomas |editor-last3=Propp |editor-first3=William H. C. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpe1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161}}</ref>