The Hebrew tribes enter Canaan over the Jordan River; Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866; the French artist and illustrator Gustave Dore (1832-1883); published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible; popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful. The Exodus is the founding; or etiological; myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant..