The Controversial History of Moses

When people are spoken of constantly, we feel we know them. Christians and Jews have been talking about Moses for thousands of years, so they assume they know who he was. But is this an illusion?

Is it possible that no one really knows who Moses was? That the evidence about him is contradictory and enigmatic? Is it even possible that he never existed except in fable?

Even religious fundamentalists have an immediate problem with Moses, and the accounts of him in the biblical Book of Exodus. People who fanatically believe that every word written in the Bible or the Torah is somehow 'the word of God', 'written by God', or 'inspired by God' (these claims vary and are rarely defined with any degree of precision), are faced with serious contradictions in the biblical text itself...

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