Two Russian mathematicians have attempted to explain the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea, which according to the Old Testament and the Torah allowed the Jews to escape slavery in Egypt.The Egyptians who followed them were drowned in the waves as they attempted to follow, the Bible story says.St. Petersburg mathematician Naum Volzinger, who wrote a study in collaboration with colleague Alexei Androsov, who lives in Hamburg, is a senior researcher with the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.He said the Red Sea might have parted under special conditions, which their study has discovered.The study focuses on a reef that runs from the well-documented starting point of the Jews to the north side of the Sea. In Biblical times the reef was much closer to the surface, Volzinger said Monday in a telephone interview.The study took almost six months to complete and was a purely mathematical task, he said.Called "Modeling of the Hydrodynamic Situation During the Exodus," and published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences."In purely professional terms, I can say that it was done through a system of differential equations," Volzinger said.

Put simply, the task facing the scientists was to establish the conditions under which the waves might have parted.


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