I forgot the name of the habiru. Hopefully that was indeed the name I was looking for... I stumbled upon some prime comedy while I was looking it up.
"Few people dispute that Moses was a reality in history, whether as an individual or a group of individuals, but there are several perplexing aspects of the man. First, he has an Egyptian name (as do many of his relatives). Second, he seems to spend a large amount of time among a non-Hebrew people, the Midianites, where he marries and seems to learn the Yahweh religion, and some of its cultic practices, from the Midianites."
From the horse's mouth: moses was neither genetically nor culturally jewish. Like he was originally named akhenaten or something, and was banished from egypt for some mysterious reason.
Such strange suppositions. I wonder where they came from?
"Exodus claims that a "diverse group of peoples" left Egypt with Moses. Who were these?"
Truly weird beliefs. I wonder if the account in exodus was deliberately distorted for poolitical reasons, but not competently enough to a) disguise the altered pixels or b) hide the real story from an invested investigator. Like it was done by the god of losers, or suchlike.
What an idea.
If, for your sins, you are familiar with the modern amarnites, tab over to la wik and ctrl-f amarna.
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