China and the Climate-Change-Palestine Convergence
Can you care about the environment without hating Israel?
September 22, 2026
The Name “Moses” Is Hebraic, Not Egyptian
Why biblical names were unlikely to have been the inventions of later scribes.
In Moses and Monotheism, Sigmund Freud famously argues that Moses was an Egyptian, citing as evidence his name, a possibility floated by some earlier philologists. According to Exodus, Moses received his name from an Egyptian princess, a fact that led medieval Jewish commentators to debate the name’s origins. Thomas Schneider, drawing on modern linguistic and archaeological scholarship, makes the case that the name is Semitic, not Egyptian, adding that
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Reflections of a historian of Lebanese Jewry.
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The Name “Moses” Is Hebraic, Not Egyptian
Why biblical names were unlikely to have been the inventions of later scribes.