Maybe it was THIS 'Moses'!...............
Posted on 07/07/2025 2:40:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A newly analyzed inscription found in Sinai, Egypt, has stirred new debate among scholars after a language researcher claimed it may include the words, “This is from Moses.” The carving, located near an ancient turquoise mine in the south-central region of the peninsula, was photographed using high-resolution imaging technology that brought faded markings into clearer view.
The markings belong to a group of rock-cut writings known as Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. These early alphabetic characters were first documented in 1904 and are believed to date back to around 1800 BCE.
The particular panel under review, labeled Sinai 357 and located across from Mine L, includes stacked characters that independent researcher Michael Bar-Ron interprets as the Hebrew phrase zot m’Moshe—translated as “This is from Moses.”
Bar-Ron shared his findings on The Humble Skeptic podcast, noting that his reading has received support for further review from Egyptologist David Rohl and Pieter van der Veen, a lecturer at the University of Mainz. The phrase, if confirmed, could represent one of the earliest written references to Moses and offers potential support for connections to the biblical Book of Exodus.
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Nearby inscriptions discovered during the same survey include appeals to the Hebrew deity El and signs that the names of Egyptian goddesses—particularly Hathor, also known as Baʿalat—were deliberately scratched out. These patterns resemble the account in Exodus 32, where the worship of a golden calf sparked a religious rupture.
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The findings come from a field report released by the Patterns of Evidence project, which has been documenting ancient inscriptions across the region.
The team also announced that modern scanning tools, including structured light imaging, have expanded the known set of inscriptions to more than 20. The full catalog is expected to be released as open-access 3D models later this year.
Scholars note that the geographical spread of the script—from Egypt to Sinai and into Canaan—roughly mirrors the journey described in the Book of Exodus. Some of the vocabulary found in the newly translated texts also includes terms related to slavery and deliverance, adding circumstantial weight to the theory that a Semitic population once fled Egypt.
However, not all researchers are convinced. Experts such as Philippa Steele caution that the shapes of ancient characters alone cannot determine meaning or language. She argues that conclusions based solely on letter forms are not reliable.
Bar-Ron has submitted his 213-page manuscript, titled Proto-Thesis, to Ariel University for academic review. Meanwhile, Patterns of Evidence researchers are planning to take micro-core samples behind the key panels to test for pigment or tool markings, pending approval from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Other teams are also preparing to rescan Sinai 357 using advanced imaging to determine whether the proposed letter sequence is evidence of human inscription or simply a natural feature in the stone.
Moses WAS a very rare - even unique - name back then among the Hebrews. Moses was not a Hebrew name, but an Egyptian one, given to him by the daughter of Pharaoh. How many Hebrews would have had that name? ZERO, at least until Moses died and people started to honor his memory by naming their kids for him. Oh, and when he died, it was on the eve of the Joshua-led invasion of Canaan, where the Hebrews settled - and these inscriptions were found in the Sinai desert, where the Hebrews had been many years before.
BC and AD have been the accepted designations for centuries. BCE came up because progressive a-holes didn’t like the Christian reference.
Read the article, it says that the language is dated to as long ago as 1800 BC, not Moses. The Exodus took place circa 1446 BC, when Moses was 80 years old, according to the Bible.
Nice 😄
“Any source that uses the idiotic ‘BCE’ date label is suspect.”
That was my first thought.
There is great controversy over exactly what year was his birth. That is another reason that it was easier to date from the present day backwards. It really does not have anything to do with religious preferences.
There is great controversy over exactly what year was his birth. That is another reason that it was easier to date from the present day backwards. It really does not have anything to do with religious preferences. Or political differences. However, many have turned it into one.
Maybe it was THIS 'Moses'!...............
AD stands for “Anno Domini,” which is Latin for “in the year of our Lord.” It is used to designate years in the Gregorian calendar that are counted from the estimated birth of Jesus Christ
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Do you want this therapy to be the 1st or the last one we try?
I would have no idea what I was holding? If I understood it and its authentic, WOW.
I’d be Gabb smocked and probably drop it.
I Kings 6.1 may say that it was 480 years from the Exodus to the 4th year of the reign of King Solomon, but according to the genealogy at the end of the book of Ruth, David was in the fifth generation from Nahshon, who was the head of the tribe of Judah during the Exodus (see Numbers 1.7).
The figure of 480 may be 12 generations times 40 years per generation, but if so that's based on a different genealogy than in Ruth, unless you assume an average of 80 years per generation.
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