“This Is From Moses” Inscription Found in Sinai, Egypt, Sparks Debate

Greek Reporter ^ | July 7, 2025 | Abdul Moeed

[Ancesthntr]

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.

[iamgalt]

BC and AD have been the accepted designations for centuries. BCE came up because progressive a-holes didn’t like the Christian reference.

[Ancesthntr]

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.

[MotorCityBuck]

Nice 😄

[MayflowerMadam]

“Any source that uses the idiotic ‘BCE’ date label is suspect.”

That was my first thought.

[silent majority rising]

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.

[silent majority rising]

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.

[Red Badger]

Maybe it was THIS 'Moses'!...............

[iamgalt]

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

[Delta 21]

You dont want your 1st Dr.s diagnosis so you get another.

Do you want this therapy to be the 1st or the last one we try?

[Delta 21]

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.

[Ezekiel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serabit_el-Khadim_proto-Sinaitic_inscriptions

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a lot of uncertainty about Biblical chronology. The familiar date of 4004 B.C. for the creation differs from the Jewish calculation (the Jewish year 5785 began last October, so their starting point is more than 200 years after Bishop Ussher's), and the Byzantine year is 7533 (based on their calculation of the date of the creation).

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.