“What is not widely known is that the Red Sea has been incorrectly identified.
“Because of a slip of the pen, English translations of the Bible identify this sea as the ‘Red Sea’.”
According to the expert, the mistranslation can be traced to the Septuagint – the oldest known Greek translation of the Bible.
The Septuagint, commissioned by the Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the third century BC, identified the Sea of Suph in Hebrew as the Red Sea and not the Reed Sea.
Professor Meyer said: “Where is this Reed Sea whose waters were divided and Pharaoh’s host drowned?
