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  1. Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero?

    Feb 6, 2025 · For the Bible, in sum, Moses is indeed a man apart—apart not only from the people he guides and the land to which he directs them, but apart also, in many fundamental ways, …

  2. The Biblical Moses - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Sep 15, 2019 · Rembrandt, Moses with the Tablets of the Law, public domain Moses, pictured here in a painting by 17th-century Baroque artist Guido Reni, is one of the most iconic figures …

  3. The Horns of Moses - Biblical Archaeology Society

    May 3, 2023 · Michelangelo’s Moses, perhaps the most famous statue of Moses with horns, was created in the 16th century for the tomb of Pope Julius II, who likely did not see Moses’s status …

  4. Where Was Moses Buried? - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Jan 28, 2025 · The monastic complex atop Mount Nebo grew in the fourth–sixth centuries around where Moses was buried according to the Bible. From Davide Bianchi, A Shrine to Moses …

  5. Who Was Miriam? - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Oct 25, 2023 · In Micah 6, we find an oracle that mentions not one great leader of the Exodus but three—Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. In light of the aforementioned passages, this declaration …

  6. Moses, the Multicultural Adoptee - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Mar 9, 2021 · Moses is the first prominent adoptee in the Bible; the details are very different, but these conflicts share some parallels with the experiences of adopted children from ancient …

  7. Akhenaten and Moses - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Apr 10, 2025 · There was no Exodus. Most scholars agrees Moses never existed. He is the personification of the birth of the Israel. If Moses and such an event would have occurred not …

  8. Moses as Pharaoh’s Equal—Horns and All - Biblical Archaeology …

    Sep 20, 2023 · Third, in Exodus 4:4 God commands Moses, atop Mt. Horeb, to hold the staff-turned-snake by the tail, an action to be compared with the many portrayals of the young …

  9. Jethro in the Bible - Biblical Archaeology Society

    May 15, 2025 · Moses has in the meantime become powerful and famous, and Jethro gives him useful advice on how to govern (Exodus 18:17ff). Invited by Moses to join the newly created …

  10. Who Is Jethro, Priest of Midian? - Biblical Archaeology Society

    Apr 2, 2025 · Reuel means “friend of God,” and Jethro, the priest’s most frequent reference, means “his excellency”; it may signify a title and his increased standing over decades. Moses’s …

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