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Article: Moses at the Millennium.
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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A GENERATION AGO MOSES SEEMED TO BE A REAL person in a real historical setting. Even his name was Egyptian. His story fit the archeological assumptions of the time. Great scholars like William Foxwell Albright and Nelson Glueck believed that the Bible was a trustworthy guide to the early history of Israel, even as far back as Abraham, our progenitor. But faith in the historicity of the Bible has been eroding since their time. More recent scholars are inclined to agnosticism; some even date the formation of the Torah narrative as late as Persian or even Greek times. Not much is left of the historical Moses.
But it was never the "historical" Moses who really ...