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Researcher States Ancient Inscription Discovered in Egypt Refers to Moses – OpentheWord.org

Researcher States Ancient Inscription Discovered in Egypt Refers to Moses – OpentheWord.org

Moses confronting the Egyptian Pharaoh.By James Tissot circa 1896-1902/Wikipedia/Public Domain A researcher recently stated that an Egyptian inscription carved into stone at Serabit el-Khadim located on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula refers to Moses, the Daily Mail reports. It was part of over two dozen inscriptions found at the site of an ancient Egyptian mine in the 1990s. After studying the inscription, Michael Bar-Ron concluded that it reads in ancient Hebrew ‘zot m’Moshe,’ which translated means ‘This is from Moses.’  It appears that it was etched into the stone before the Hebrews actual exodus out of Egypt, but while Moses was confronting pharaoh about the Hebrew’s release from Egypt. It also indicates that Moses had become a folk hero among the down trodden Hebrews. “I took a very critical view towards finding the name ‘Moses’ or anything that could sound sensationalist,” Bar-Ron added. “In fact, the only way to do serious work is to try not to find elements that seem ‘Biblical,’ but to struggle to find alternative solutions that are at least as likely.” Bar-Ron studied …