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Moses (c.
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Moses "simply means 'born
of' in Egyptian, his native language.. The name normally
requires another name prefixed to it, such as Rameses
(born of Ra) or Amenmosis (born of Amen)It seems very
likely to us that either Moses himself or some later scribe
dropped the first half of his name because it was the name
of an Egyptian god .
Moses is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith the Bahaiʼ Faith and other Abrahamic religions. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh, worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies, Moses's mother secretly hid him. The child was adopted as a foundling 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 voice of the Lord speaking to him from within a burning bush. God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. After ten plagues were imposed upon the Egyptians, Moses led 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 on Mount Nebo at the age of 120, within sight of the Promised Land. The birth story of Moses is thought by many to be a fiction created in the sixth century BC echoing, for the birth of the Jewish nation, the ancient theme of creation emerging from the waters. The birth narrative of Sargon I, who ruled over Babylon and Sumer hundred of years before Moses, states his mother "set me in a basket of rushes; with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river, which rose not over me." If Moses was actually Thothmoses II - prince and high-priest of Egypt, the following account may be the true story of Moses. |
 (above) The Pharoah's daughter Hatshepsut who found Moses
(below) Moses in the lap of Hatshepsut
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