Biblical moses biography

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Hebrew liberator, leader, lawgiver, prophet, and historian, lived in the thirteenth and early part of the twelfth century, B.

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Moshéh (M.

Biblical moses biography

T.), Mouses, Moses. In Exodus 2:10, a derivation from the HebrewMashah (to draw) is implied. Josephus and the Fathers assign the Coptic mo (water) and uses (saved) as the constituent parts of the name.

Nowadays the view of Lepsius, tracing the name back to the Egyptianmesh (child), is widely patronized by Egyptologists, but nothing decisive can be established.

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To deny or to doubt the historic personality of Moses, is to undermine and render unintelligible the subsequent history of the Israelites.

Rabbinical literature teems with legends touching every event of his marvellous career: tak