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Hi trad, if you read through a few of my subsequent posts, you'll see that I went into the subject in further depth. If I still haven't answered your question, I'll take another go at it.

You said a lot of things, but not on specifics. Was the Exodus real? Is it a total fabrication? Or is what we ahve now "based on" a true story?

If you celebrate Passover, are you commemorating a real event or not?

And if Moses never went up the mountain and received the Law, if it was a gradual divinely-inspired work, then when did God and the Israelites make their covenant?

The Bible says that Moses spilled blood on the altar and on the people when they accepted the covenant. Did this not happen?

If you celebrate Passover, are you commemorating a real event or not?

Commemorating a real event.

And if Moses never went up the mountain and received the Law, if it was a gradual divinely-inspired work, then when did God and the Israelites make their covenant?

Are we using the same definition of "divinely-inspired"? Aside from the original tablets of the Law which Moses broke, everything else was given by God to Moses through revelation. I see no reason to believe that God dictated this word-for-word, and that Moses served only as a scribe. Doesn't the Catholic church understand divine revelation in basically the same way? That the words of scripture are divinely inspired, but are written down by the prophets in their own style?