Did Mozes exist?

Awake in our Mythology with DM Murdock

Moses or Dionysus?
http://DidMosesExist.com/

He was said to be born in Egypt and was “saved from the waters” in a small box or chest. He had two mothers, went to “Arabia” and battled Egypt. He was considered a “divine prophet,” and wherever he marched, the “land flowed with wine, milk and honey.” He carried a magical rod that he could change into a serpent. He fled to the Red Sea, escaping from a tyrant, who was killed. He divided the waters of the rivers to cross dryshod. He was ordered by a deity to “destroy an impious nation. He “engraved his laws on two tables of marble.”

All of these things were said in ancient times about the Greek god Dionysus.

These commonalities and dozens more are drawn from ancient primary sources and can be found in my book "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver" athttp://DidMosesExist.com/

For these specific attributes/parallels, the citations of ancient primary sources provided in the book include: "Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus," Pausanias, Diodorus, Homer, Artapanus, Euripides, Macrobius, Seneca, Nonnus, Horace and Ovid.

The story of Moses does not show up in the literary or archaeological record until after the sixth century BCE. It is absent in the Bible until the later prophets. There are inferences of a mythical Exodus tale without all the details and without a Moses prior to that; however, these elements evidently come from Canaanite myth in significant part.

Meanwhile, Dionysus is traceable to at least the 13th century, and the Greeks were in the Levant beginning at that time. The stories of a wine deity predate that era by eons, however. Moreover, Moses evidently is based significantly also on the Babylonian demigod Gilgamesh.

All of these aspects are treated in detail in "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver."