Dick Gagel asks "isn't the XII [Dynasty of Egypt] too early?" for Moses.
Dear Damien, I must have had your paper on Moses ages ago, made my notes in the margin but never shared my understanding of the man's early life with you. Used the following to gainsay those who called him and the Exodus "a myth". It would appear we differ on both dynasties and chronology - isn't the XII too early? MOSES was a general, as fully described by Josephus in Antiquities , Book II, ch X. In ch XI, after he had virtually saved Egypt as its victorious general over the Ethiopians/Cushites, he had to flee for his life from an assassination plot. He was heir to a throne in Egypt as the ruler had a daughter but no grandchildren. Josephus: "if Moses had been slain, there was no one, either a kin or adopted, that had any oracle on his side for pretending to the crown of Egypt." Here are our clues - a dynasty in which Moses is General, and one which effectively ended at the point in history that Moses fled and did not regain authority in t...
