Moses - Textual origin of the Torah

Moses or Moshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Moše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšẹh, Syriac ܡܘܫܐ Muše, Arabic موسى Mūsa, Ethiopic ሙሴ Musse, Latin Moyses), son of Amram (Imran in Arabic) and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite, was a Legendary Hebrew liberato ...

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Also see the article on the Bible and history Most mainstream historians find links between the biblical Moses and the Exodus and historical Ancient Egypt as problematic and highly controversial. Due to the fact that the events that transpired in Egypt may have been written down centuries later, it is difficult to separate eyewitness testimonies from allegories and inaccuracies brought on by oral traditions. Descriptions of the Ancient Egypt in the Bible often contain accurate historical details, such as the description of the ...

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Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, The Ten Commandments. He is played by Charlton Heston. DeMille's introduction to the movie is timeless in its own right, and well illustrates the primary ethical dilemma confronting men in Moses' lifetime: "...The theme of this picture is whether man ought to be ruled by God’s law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Ramesses. Are men the property of the state or are they free souls under God? This same battle cont ...

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Due to a statement towards the end of the book of Exodus (at 34:29-35), in which Moses is depicted as having been disfigured due to his direct encounter with God, various traditions grew up as to what the disfigurement was. Jonathan Kirsch, in his book Moses: A Life, thought that, since Moses subsequently had to wear a veil to hide it, the disfigurement was a sort of "divine radiation burn". There is one longstanding and possibly pagan tradition that Moses grew horns. This is derived from a mistranslation of the Hebrew p ...

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If the Bible gives an accurate description of Moses' views, then by "modern standards" some of his commands might amount to calls for murder, war crimes or slavery. For instance, according to Numbers 31:15-18, he called for the massacre of boys and the enslavement of female children to Israelite veterans of the Midian war ("kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the little girls among the women, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves"). ...

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A wealth of stories and additional information about Moses can be found in the Jewish genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud. Little evidence outside of religious sources supports any of these stories, according to its detractors. However, the strong and rigid rules for scribes making copies of the Torah, provide a continuity into the ancient past, and many of the sto ...

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For Christians, Moses – mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure – is often a symbol of the contrast between traditional Judaism and the teachings of Jesus. New Testament writers often made comparison of Jesus' words and deeds with Moses' in order to explain Jesus' mission. In the book of Acts, for example, the rejection of Moses by the Jews when they worshipped the golden calf is liken ...

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