Judaism Moses

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moses on knesset menorah


most of known moses bible comes books of exodus, leviticus, numbers , deuteronomy. majority of scholars consider compilation of these books go persian period, 538–332 bce, based on earlier written , oral traditions. there wealth of stories , additional information moses in jewish apocrypha , in genre of rabbinical exegesis known midrash, in primary works of jewish oral law, mishnah , talmud. moses given number of bynames in jewish tradition. midrash identifies moses 1 of 7 biblical personalities called various names. moses other names were: jekuthiel (by mother), heber (by father), jered (by miriam), avi zanoah (by aaron), avi gedor (by kohath), avi soco (by wet-nurse), shemaiah ben nethanel (by people of israel). moses attributed names toviah (as first name), , levi (as family name) (vayikra rabbah 1:3), heman, mechoqeiq (lawgiver) , ehl gav ish (numbers 12:3).


jewish historians lived @ alexandria, such eupolemus, attributed moses feat of having taught phoenicians alphabet, similar legends of thoth. artapanus of alexandria explicitly identified moses not thoth/hermes, greek figure musaeus (whom called teacher of orpheus ), , ascribed him division of egypt 36 districts, each own liturgy. named princess adopted moses merris, wife of pharaoh chenephres.


to orthodox jews, moses called moshe rabbenu, `eved hashem, avi haneviim zya a: our leader moshe, servant of god, father of prophets (may merit shield us, amen) . in orthodox view, moses received not torah, revealed (written , oral) , hidden (the `hokhmat nistar teachings, gave judaism zohar of rashbi, torah of ari haqadosh , discussed in heavenly yeshiva between ramhal , masters). considered greatest prophet.


moses 1 hundred , twenty (120) years old when died (deut. 34:7), , no 1 knows burial place day (deut. 34:6).


arising in part age , eye had not dimmed, , vigor had not diminished, phrase may live 120 has become common blessing among jews, since 120 elsewhere stated maximum age noah s descendants (one interpretation of genesis 6:3).









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