Moses (c. 1400 BCE)
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Moses (c. 1400 BCE) is a legendary fictional person.
- See: Prophet, Judaism, Mount Nebo, Mount Sinai, Israelite, Hebrew Prophet, MOSES Translation System.
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2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Retrieved:2020-10-5.
- Moses, also known as Moshe Rabbenu, [1] is the most important prophet in Judaism, and an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, and a number of other Abrahamic religions. In the biblical narrative he was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the first five books of the bible, the Torah, or "acquisition of the Torah from heaven," is attributed. Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE; [2] Jerome suggested 1592 BCE, [3] and James Ussher suggested 1571 BCE as his birth year. [4] Scholarly consensus sees Moses as a legendary figure, while retaining the possibility that a Moses-like figure existed. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. [5] Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through the Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God. God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. Moses said that he could not speak eloquently, [6] so God allowed Aaron, his elder brother, [7] to become his spokesperson. After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land on Mount Nebo.
- ↑ Jacob Neusner, The Talmud: What it is and what it Says Rowman & Littlefield 2006 pp.4-5.
- ↑ Seder Olam Rabbah
- ↑ Jerome's Chronicon (4th century) gives 1592 for the birth of Moses
- ↑ The 17th-century Ussher chronology calculates 1571 BC (Annals of the World, 1658 paragraph 164)
- ↑ Exodus 1:10
- ↑ Exodus 4:10
- ↑ Exodus 7:7