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Posted on 07/29/2025 10:40:53 AM PDT by fidelis
Mysterious Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions may point to Moses and Joseph as historical figures, sparking global scholarly controversy.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase “This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
“If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. “And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
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Since he was raised as an Egyptian royal, wouldn’t his signature be Hieroglyphs?
You show knowledge of the topic. I think the writing was by someone else about Moses to commemorate the place. But true, the name for the people wasn’t current for a long time.
So many episodes of In Search Of and others that I can’t find it.
I remember the line distinctly.
Of course I am not responsible for the line, Nimoy, or the show or the series.
A lot of Biblical characters seem to have multiple names:
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/627663/jewish/What-Was-Moshes-Real-Name.htm
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The Three-Fox-Skins (hieroglyph) is Gardiner's sign listed no. F31, in the series of parts of animals. It consists of 3-fox skins tied at one end, and hanging, creating flowing skins.
In Egyptian hieroglyphs it has the value ms.[1] The word in Egyptian means birth, and related items: to bring forth, produce, fashion, create, etc.
The 3-fox-skin hieroglyph has its origins in the early dynasties of Ancient Egypt, and can be found in multiple usage on the Palermo Stone, (creation or inauguration of events).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_fox_skins_(hieroglyph)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs#F
It must have been a three-dog night.
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Three fox skins, three-dog night, it all ties together:
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me. ♫
Joy to the World -- Three Dog Night
Fish in Aramaic
Moses’ birthday on the 7th of Adar connects to the mazal of the month of Adar, the fish (dag in Hebrew). The numerical value of dag is 7. Moses really is like a fish. His name, Moshe, was given to him by Pharaoh’s daughter, “for I have drawn him out of the water.” [1]
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Increasing Joy
Fish symbolize fertility. The first blessing that God blessed Creation was for the fish: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas.”[2] The Talmud says that it is propitious to wed on Thursday, for this is the day that God blessed the fish. After the fish, God gave a similar blessing to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and conquer it and rule over the fish of the sea (fish, again).”[3] In short – be fruitful and multiply like fish.
Ol Mose was a good singer and dancer.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tciT9bmCMq8
That's a good question.
While hieroglyphics were the formal script of Egypt, used almost exclusively on tombs, memorials, and official documentation, a cursive form called hieratic was used for more practical purposes like record-keeping on papyrus.
I'm guessing if Moses was going to leave a "Kilroy was here" type of inscription out in the middle of nowhere, he would have used this simpler form.
Full legal name, name as used by family, nickname by friends, nickname by enemies, name as used by people who speak other languages....
Edward the VIII was called David by his family before ascending the throne. His brother George the VI was called Bertie, a nickname for Albert. And that is just recent examples.
A hammer and chisel....the original autopen.
Michael S. Bar-Ron — didn’t he write “The Almanac of Egyptian Politics?”
Science ever follows Scripture.
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“There probably wasn’t a whole lot of difference in whatever language Egyptians spoke and what language Hebrews spoke back then.”
well from the time of Tower of Babel there were distinct languages and confusion in communication between people groups.
Grandma Moses painted with a hammer and chisel?
In the Book of Genesis, we see that translators were needed between Joseph and the Egyptians, and Joseph's Hebrew brothers (though Joseph, of course, could understand both languages). While in captivity, the Hebrews likely learned Egyptian to communicate with the Egyptians while retaining their own Hebrew language. Moses, raised in Pharoah's house with his Hebrew mother as his nursemaid, was fluent in both.
At the time, Egyptians spoke a now extinct version of the Egyptian language. A more evolved form of it lives on today as the Coptic language used in the Coptic Churches based in Egypt, which uses Coptic as a liturgical language, kind of like the Latin Rite Catholic Church uses Latin.
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