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A Pharaoh, traditionally assigned the identity of Rameses II (reign: 1279-1213 B.C.), was threatened by a growing Israelite population. And so the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks." When they continued to multiply, he ordered all newborn males thrown into the Nile...
The story of the baby in the little ark woven of reeds is a favorite among some scholars who believe Moses was a creation of the ancient Hebrews' binding together their own national epic out of the tales of neighbors. They point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of...
The gigantic monuments of Rameses II provide no evidence of the enslavement of the children of Israel in Egypt. Indeed, Israel does not appear in Egyptian records until the reign of Rameses' son and successor Merneptah. By then it is clearly a nation, not a wandering mass of refugees. But...
A tantalizing hint of historical truth comes when Pharaoh's daughter adopts the child in the basket and names him Moses. The name is connected to a Hebrew verb indicating that she drew him from the water. Many scholars, however, think it derives from an Egyptian suffix meaning "to be...
When the ancient rabbis imagined Moses' days as a prince of Egypt, they thought mostly of a good education: Moses, they wrote, absorbed all Egypt's learning, both scientific and occult, and spoke 70 languages. More recent commentators and The Prince of Egypt have focused on questions of assimilation and...