>
>*Exodus 13:17 reads: "When Pharaoh had
>let the people go, God
>did not let them take
>the road to the Philistines'
>territory, although that was the
>shortest 'in case', God thought,
>'the prospect of fighting makes
>the people a roundabout way
>through the desert of the
>Sea of Reeds."
>


that this verse means...I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to point out...

that they did not go the shortest way or sommething else...

In the tanach, in it's hebrew it does state that the people did not the shortest way and it also states why, however an anachronism is like a relic, a survivor, a left over of sorts so what is it exactly are the footnotes saying...


also like i have mentioned before...when naming places don't go by these modern maps, one should find an older map or better yet an ancient map in order to see where was what as well to account for land and water massess at the time...