"And a Man wrestled with him until dawn
The genius of the Torah lies not merely in its stories, but in the connections between its stories — the repeating of themes and forms that allows every story to shed light on all other ones. That's why the gospel writers were so diligent in linking their accounts to the Old Testament. Yet Jesus' "fulfilling" the prior Scriptures (Matthew 1:22, 2:15, 2:17, 2:23, 4:14, and so on) had nothing to do with being predicted by them, but with the continuation of the pattern that they had set in motion. The prophets didn't simply predict Jesus in any paranormal sense; they foretold the inevitable blooming of the bud they observed with their human eyes.

The Hebrew Torah is the purified paper version of the marriage of all the old world's temples, from Giza to Machu Picchu and from Angkor Wat to Puma Punku. It's like a brain in which the recognizable narratives are the gyri and the repeated themes the neural pathways. The Torah unfolds like an infinite umbrella of which the narrative stories are the ribs and the connections form the canvass. And it's that canvass that corresponds to our real-time world; not the spokes. The stories of the Torah are the atoms that form the molecules of our world. The stories are the words that form into the sentences that describe our every day reality.

Trying to translate the intricate patterns of the Bible into a modern whodunit takes a trick or two, and the Exodus account has countless real-time manifestations. One of them, though, is indeed the story of how the unified and autonomous wisdom tradition called Israel came to pass:

The first line of the Book of Exodus tells us that once upon a time, the world was mostly Egyptian — which means that all skills and knowledge were enslaved by politicians who had no respect for the unity of both wisdom and creation. Wisdom, as an autonomous tradition, went through various stages and specializations, but never deviated from its prime directive, which was to engage the Creator in a mutual struggle of teaching and learning, giving and receiving (Genesis 32)..."
[abarim-publications.com]