July 30, 2025
Moses Signature Found
Timothy Birdnow
Is an ancient inscription found in a mine the work of Moses? Some think so.
From Arkeo News:
It's little surprise that there is no smoking gun evidence the fathers of Judaism really existed after all this time. Remember, the Jews were a minor tribe of people living in Egypt at the time and had no great historical significance as of yet. People save the writings of Pharoahs, not of shepherds.
At any rate this is an exciting development. Increasingly archaeology is turning up proofs of the historicity of the Bible. For example, scientists found coins inscribed with the name of Pontius Pilate, proving Pilate was a real person (some scholars thought he was just a myth). And elsewhere an inscription of Quirinius, the governor of Syria was found, proving the Bible was accurate in that.
We've also learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually older than thought, nearly contemporary with the events in the Old Testament.
The more we learn the more accurate the Bible appears. Yet the more people reject it because it ultimately requires people repent of their sins and they don't want to do so.
Is an ancient inscription found in a mine the work of Moses? Some think so.
From Arkeo News:
Mysterious Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions may point to Moses and Joseph as historical figures, sparking global scholarly controversy.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase "This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
"If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. "And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
The cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThe cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University Main.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase "This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
"If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. "And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
The cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThe cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University Main.
It's little surprise that there is no smoking gun evidence the fathers of Judaism really existed after all this time. Remember, the Jews were a minor tribe of people living in Egypt at the time and had no great historical significance as of yet. People save the writings of Pharoahs, not of shepherds.
At any rate this is an exciting development. Increasingly archaeology is turning up proofs of the historicity of the Bible. For example, scientists found coins inscribed with the name of Pontius Pilate, proving Pilate was a real person (some scholars thought he was just a myth). And elsewhere an inscription of Quirinius, the governor of Syria was found, proving the Bible was accurate in that.
We've also learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually older than thought, nearly contemporary with the events in the Old Testament.
The more we learn the more accurate the Bible appears. Yet the more people reject it because it ultimately requires people repent of their sins and they don't want to do so.
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It always amazes -- and annoys -- me when I encounter articles like this and the headlines read something like "New discovery proves the Bible is real;" or some sort of garbage headline like that, implying that up until this discovery, nobody believed the truth of the Bible. (I'm not saying THIS article did that, I'm just taking the opportunity to rant.)
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 12:10 AM (/DT7Z)
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I get that. The assumption is the Bible is hogwash and we've suddenly been enlightened. It's insulting.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 31, 2025 06:26 AM (AauBe)
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Not only that, but... the Bible's been hogwash for thousands of years until just this one little discovery has somehow proven that it isn't, after all.
Thousands of years overturned with a single blow. Amazing.
They keep assuring us they're going to find evidence of Noah's Ark. Probably with some well-preserved animal shit on it?
Thousands of years overturned with a single blow. Amazing.
They keep assuring us they're going to find evidence of Noah's Ark. Probably with some well-preserved animal shit on it?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 11:43 PM (Gtb2F)
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Good point Dana.
I still take discoveries of Noah's Ark with a grain of salt as I doubt it would still be around after all this time. But who knows? God might preserve it just to prove us smarty-pants wrong.
I still take discoveries of Noah's Ark with a grain of salt as I doubt it would still be around after all this time. But who knows? God might preserve it just to prove us smarty-pants wrong.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 01, 2025 06:25 AM (l4Nr4)
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Well, there's that. And to show that Islam is a crock, too. I don't think there's a flood story in Islam.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 02, 2025 12:05 AM (RX4Ci)
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