“Sing Muse, of Achilles wrath, begins the Iliad, about the grievance of a Greek,whereas the Bible quoth,using an analogous poetical technique,that by the Reed Sea after the Egyptians and their horses drowned,yet Israelites crossed dryshod,Moses sang, and in his Sea Song crownedwith glory not himself, but God. Leon Kass inFounding God`s Nation: Reading Exodus [̷