How Do We Explain the Exodus Experience?

According to the biblical narrative, there was this Orthodox correct stream of Israelite religion that focused on the one true God and not on these other gods. However, there was also a cultural matrix that the Israelites found themselves in of people who did worship other gods. And so there was kind of a hybrid situation between the worship of the true God, Yahweh and the worship of those other gods. The fire of the exilic experience and being taken into other lands really cured them of this. Jews tend to be much more Orthodox in their approach to their religion.