How do we know that Moses was not a mythical figure, and that the Exodus has at all taken place?
:: OvS’s reply. Continuous and from the very beginning of the creation of the work, such questions are being made about its main subjects. This questioning is often influenced by the circulation of for instance the doubts of certain theological schools as to whether Moses did exist as a historical person. Often the hypotheses in question seem to stem from the fact that the Moses research has been done on a dubious dating, which convincingly must be erroneous dating. In this way he is dated approx. 250 years too late in often in official history – by 1200 B.C. – instead of 1400-1500 B.C. Consequently no traces have been found of either Moses or the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. Based on this defective condition, it is being claimed that the biblical Moses narrative is a national-romantic myth created only 2,300 years ago by ingenious priests in order to create a glorious Jewish pre-history. Especially in Egyptian and Jewish sources, however, considerable amounts of evident, historical tr
:: OvS’s reply. Continuous and from the very beginning of the creation of the work, such questions are being made about its main subjects. This questioning is often influenced by the circulation of for instance the doubts of certain theological schools as to whether Moses did exist as a historical person. Often the hypotheses in question seem to stem from the fact that the Moses research has been done on a dubious dating, which convincingly must be erroneous dating. In this way he is dated approx. 250 years too late often in official history – at 1200 BC – instead of 1400-1500 BC. Consequently no traces have been found of either Moses or the Israelite exodus from Egypt. Based on this defective condition, it is being claimed that the biblical Moses narrative is a national-romantic myth created only 2,300 years ago by ingenious priests in order to create a glorious Jewish pre-history. Especially in Egyptian and Jewish sources, however, considerable amounts of evident, historical traces c
