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But could someone like Moses ever become a prince? In his book, Hoffmeier notes that the Egyptian court reared and educated foreign-born princes, who then bore the title "child of the nursery." He believes Moses was one of these privileged foreigners, some of whom went on to serve as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

There was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed... God called to him out of the bush: "Moses! Moses!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Like many prophets to come, Moses is reluctant to take up the burden. "I have marked well the plight of my people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry," announces God. "I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians." Moses responds with excuses and conditions: "I am slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Was the jealous YHWH inspired by the religious policies of the Pharaoh Akhenaton, who reigned in Egypt from 1353 to 1336 B.C.? Closing the temples of the powerful priesthood of Amon, this royal Egyptian heretic established the state cult of a godhead embodied in the sun disk, or Aton. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

The Pharaoh refuses. And so, at Moses' direction, Moses' brother Aaron touches the Nile with his staff, and it turns to blood. Egypt is then infested successively by frogs, gnats, flies, a pestilence on livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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