An academic told me the Bible is wrong about Moses's name. Apparently the name is Egyptian in origin, not Hebrew like the Bible suggests, and that it means "son of" not "drawn out of water." He did give me examples, like of a Pharaoh named Thutmose I whose name means "son of Thoth" and Ramesses/Ramses I whose name means "son of Ra". He says likely Moses's name included a foreign gods name but it got removed and that the story had a long oral tradition before it got included in the Bible and likely the authors of the Bible drew on material like that of Sargon of Akkad and came up with a Hebrew/folk etymology to make Moses's name mean "drawn out of water" instead of what it originally meant. He did make a good point of why would an Egyptian give a child a Hebrew name? Anyway, how accurate is this Zig Forums?
An academic told me the Bible is wrong about Moses's name. Apparently the name is Egyptian in origin...
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The Bible never said it was Hebrew either. Pharaoh's own daughter named him Moses. And yes, it's the same variation as Dedumose, Thutmose, Ahmose, etc..
Exodus 2:10?????
Moses
Honestly.
You mean the meaning it says there. He could be right. I'm just saying that Pharaoh's daughter named him, not Moses' Hebrew mother.
"Mashah" is the Hebrew wording meaning drawn out.. And Moshe (Mo-Sha) is how the Hebrew pronounce it (I don't think the Egyptians use an Sh sound). So there could be some anachronistic etymology from Hebrew to use that word on to his name.
Either way, these stupid gotchas from skeptics are retarded. They mean nothing. A lot of figures from history had multiple names, depending on the culture writing about them.
Just to add.. as for some people having different names in different cultures: Ramses is a good example.
He is Oxymandias in Greek
His "Horus" name was Ka-nakht-mery-Ra (the Strong Bull)
His Nebty name was Mek-Kemet-waf-khasut (Protector of Kemet)
His throne name was User-Maat-Ra-setep-en Ra
And his actual full birth name is Riyama-shisha-miamana
That last full name is why David Rohl, for example says the Pharoah "Shishak" is actually Ramses II, and not the Pharoah Shoshenq as mainstream scholars insist. He insists the Israelites were just shortening the "Shisha" in his longer name to "Shishak".
Ramses is another shortened form of the birth name obviously.
But to get back to the point, Moses, if he was in the royal court, probably wasn't simply called Moses.
Did you know Jesus name isn't actually Jesus? Jesus is just the latinized name.
Thus the bible is a fake.
Checkmate Christians.
This almost seems authentic. Good job.
Oh sh*t religion btfo, brb buying a fedora right now.