No Footprint: The Missing Evidence for Moses
A standalone piece The case for Moses as a historical figure rests on a single source — the Pentateuch — and that source argues against its own reliability the moment you read it for date. There is no contemporary record of Moses, no Egyptian trace of the Exodus, and no archaeological footprint of the event the Bible describes. What there is, instead, is a text whose own details give away that it was written centuries after the era it depicts. That is not a gap in the evidence waiting to be filled. It is the evidence.
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A standalone piece The case for Moses as a historical figure rests on a single source — the Pentateuch — and that source argues against its own reliability the moment you read it for date. There is no contemporary record of Moses, no Egyptian trace of the Exodus, and no archaeological footprint of the event the Bible describes. What there is, instead, is a text whose own details give away that it was written centuries after the era it depicts. That is not a gap in the evidence waiting to be filled. It is the evidence. The silence where a record should be Begin with what is absent. Moses appears in no Egyptian inscription, no contemporary document, no source outside the Hebrew Bible itself.
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Hebrew Bible
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William Dever