Did Moses exist?

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An article online by Time magazine said that as yet no proof of Moses existed and all the stories about the plagues, manna from Heaven etc. have the sound of myth. Does anyone have reputable sources that say otherwise?
 
JurisPrudens said:
There is no definite position of the Church on the historicity of Exodus.

However, personally I don’t think such a figure could have been purely fictional. Although particular elements of his biography might have been exaggerated.
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Does the Church accept or allow us to believe that parts of his biography might’ve been exaggerated?
 
MaryHelp777 said:
Also, there is a part of the Red sea that the Israelites crossed whose sea floor is completely flat like a road, and is filled with the remains of Egyptian chariot wheels from the 32nd dynasty. Each type of chariot wheel in Egypt follows a specific design depending on the time in history, and the archaeologists could match the chariot wheel designs to mosaics in the pyramids that showed what era of Egyptian history chariot wheels came from.
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The 32nd dynasty was the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty which ruled from 305 to 30 BC. So if Moses lived during that dynasty, that means that he lived rather late in Jewish history, after the time of King David and King Solomon, after the time of Isaiah, after the time of the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II in 587 BC, etc. That would also mean that the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) which was supposedly written by Moses is out of order in the Bible and should be placed near the end of the Old Testament.
 
Faith1960 said:
An article online by Time magazine said that as yet no proof of Moses existed and all the stories about the plagues, manna from Heaven etc. have the sound of myth. Does anyone have reputable sources that say otherwise?
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Anyone?
 
Faith1960 said:
Again, anyone?
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Modern Catholic scholars (like the ones who write the footnotes to the New American and New Jerusalem Bibles) have noted that some of the plagues may correspond to natural phenomena that have occurred at other times in Egypt. However, none of them deny the historical existence of a person named Moses.
 
RPRPsych said:
Modern Catholic scholars (like the ones who write the footnotes to the New American and New Jerusalem Bibles) have noted that some of the plagues may correspond to natural phenomena that have occurred at other times in Egypt. However, none of them deny the historical existence of a person named Moses.
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So it’s ok for Catholics to believe that some of the plagues were natural phenomena?
 
Faith1960 said:
So it’s ok for Catholics to believe that some of the plagues were natural phenomena?
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Natural phenomena may be used by God for His own purposes (such as the Flood), so I don’t think that would really be a problem. 🙂
 
RPRPsych said:
Modern Catholic scholars (like the ones who write the footnotes to the New American and New Jerusalem Bibles) have noted that some of the plagues may correspond to natural phenomena that have occurred at other times in Egypt. However, none of them deny the historical existence of a person named Moses.
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What about all the articles I found when I googled that said Moses didn’t exist and the story was false or exaggerated?
 
Faith1960 said:
An article online by Time magazine said that as yet no proof of Moses existed and all the stories about the plagues, manna from Heaven etc. have the sound of myth. Does anyone have reputable sources that say otherwise?
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What about what TIME said? Post 22.
 
Faith1960 said:
An article online by Time magazine said that as yet no proof of Moses existed and all the stories about the plagues, manna from Heaven etc. have the sound of myth. Does anyone have reputable sources that say otherwise?
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If god can create the universe and life, then all the miracles regarding Mosses, are very minor by comparison. God created the oceans, he hangs the Earth in Space, parting the sea should be child’s play. It just depends if you have the faith to believe God can do these things.

The law of God came to man via Moses. The law of God is a profound subject, I do not believe that God would link his law with fictional myths.
 
Eric_Hyom said:
If god can create the universe and life, then all the miracles regarding Mosses, are very minor by comparison. God created the oceans, he hangs the Earth in Space, parting the sea should be child’s play. It just depends if you have the faith to believe God can do these things.

The law of God came to man via Moses. The law of God is a profound subject, I do not believe that God would link his law with fictional myths.
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But what about what TIME had to say about this?
 
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