Egypt is the Bible's most underappreciated main character. And the story doesn't end when Israel walks out of it.

The Egypt we usually picture—the Egypt of Pharaoh, of plagues, of Hebrew slaves making bricks—got conquered. Repeatedly. By the time Mary and Joseph fled there with the infant Jesus, Egypt had been a refuge for Jewish people for centuries. There was a temple to YHWH at Elephantine. There was a thriving Greek-speaking Jewish community in Alexandria. And it was there, in Egypt, that Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek — a translation called the Septuagint that the New Testament writers would quote, and that still shapes every English Bible in print today.

In the final episode of Egypt and the Bible, we trace how Egypt went from villain to refuge to one of the cradles of early Christianity. We walk through temples that have been claimed and reclaimed by every empire that came through them, stand in front of the Rosetta Stone, visit a cave in Old Cairo where tradition says the Holy Family stayed, and meet the Egyptian bishop whose theology gets recited every time someone says the Nicene Creed. Egypt's permanence was an illusion. Israel's story endured. And God used even that.

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