The only account of his death is sketchy to say the least and no one knows where one of the most significant figures in history is buried. We’re told he was adopted by an Egyptian princess but no details of his childhood are offered. At first we are led to believe that he is a first child only for it to be revealed later that he has older siblings.
Unlike the story of Joseph which has a discernable beginning, middle and end, Moses’ narrative is scattered and disjointed.
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The biblical story of the great man is full of contradictions and puzzles. But the question of the prophet’s existence – whether he was indeed a flawed flesh-and-blood man or a fictional character forced to jump through his creator’s hoops is a thorny one not easily dismissed or answered.
Their conclusion was a severe blow to those who believed that Moses had been a real person. The Book of Exodus: "Departure of the Israelites", by David Roberts, 1829 ( Wikipedia ) The early Israelites were – irony of ironies – themselves originally Canaanites!" (Finkelstein & Silberman The Bible Unearthed, 118) Most of the people who formed early Israel were local people – the same people whom we see in the highlands throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages. And most of the Israelites did not come from outside Canaan – they emerged from within it. In The Bible Unearthed, Israeli archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman dispelled any illusions that their digs had verified the story of the Exodus: “The process that we describe here is, in fact, the opposite of what we have in the Bible: the emergence of early Israel was an outcome of the collapse of the Canaanite culture, not its cause. This premature optimism was dashed by the stark reality of subsequent excavations. In the early days of biblical archaeology there was a lot of optimism that the new science could verify the existence of Moses by proving that there was indeed a great migration of people from Egypt who eventually conquered and settled Canaan.
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