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Moses
משה he ܡܘܫܐ arc Moyses la
Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of Egypt
Overview
Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of EgyptWikidata record description. Read Moses in the Wikipedia reader.
In 15 other languages
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Offices held 2
- Dates unrecorded biblical judge
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Family tree
As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
The family as a list · 9
Kinship in an account 9
- child of (child) Amram human biblical character in Exodus, husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam
- child of (adoptive) Bithiah adoptive mother of the prophet Moses
- child of (child) Jochebed biblical figure, mother of Moses
- parent of (child) Eliezer in the Book of Exodus, the second son of Moses
- parent of (father) Gershom firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah
- partner of (spouse) Tharbis Cushite princess
- partner of (spouse) Zipporah biblical character, wife of Moses
- sibling of Aaron male human biblical and quranic figure, brother of Moses
- sibling of Miriam sister of Moses and Aaron
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
- Written 631 CE
Qur’an
foundational Islamic religious text -
Exodus
second book of the Bible -
Leviticus
third book of the Bible -
Deuteronomy
fifth book of the Torah and Christian Old Testament -
Book of Numbers
fourth book of Bible - Written 1st century CE
Assumption of Moses
Jewish pseudepigraphical work, surviving in a 6th century Latin manuscript, purporting to describe secret prophecies that Moses revealed to Joshua -
Israel in Egypt ↗
oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel -
Go Down Moses ↗
song -
Moses
opera by Myroslav Skoryk
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- Written c. 1000 CE
Exodus
poem in the Junius manuscript -
Les Dix Commandements
musical by Élie Chouraqui and Pascal Obispo -
Moses
poem by Ivan Franko -
Die Israeliten in der Wüste ↗
oratorio by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
La Terre Promise ↗
oratorio in three parts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by the composer based on the French translation of the Vulgate by Silvestre de Sacy -
Moses ↗
opera by Anton Rubinstein -
Moses the Lawgiver ↗
book by Thomas Keneally -
Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ↗
collection of folk tales -
The Promised Land ↗
oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns -
Himmelfahrt des Moses ↗
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La Terre promise ↗
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Mojžíš ↗
poem by Alfred de Vigny -
Mojžíšův rozsudek ↗
poem written by Simeon Karel Macháček -
Moses und Josua ↗
1917 poem written by Else Lasker-Schüler -
Moses, Man of the Mountain ↗
novel by Zora Neale Hurston -
Pillar of Fire ↗
1995 novel by Judith Tarr -
The Finding of Moses ↗
poem by Zozimus (Michael J. Moran) -
The Ten Commandments: The Musical ↗
musical
Later works that name Moses
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not sources for the life.
- Written 19th century CE
Mosè in Egitto
opera by Gioachino Rossini - Written 20th century CE
Moses und Aron
opera by Arnold Schoenberg - Written 19th century CE
Moïse et Pharaon
opera by Gioachino Rossini - Written 1929 CE
The Green Pastures
play by Marc Connelly - Written 1909 CE
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
1909 short story by Mark Twain - Written 1944 CE
The Tables of the Law
novel by Thomas Mann
Also in films, games and series: De Mantel der Liefde, Exodus: Gods and Kings, History of the World, Part I, In the Beginning, Moses, Moses the Lawgiver, Moses und Aron, Once Upon a Time... Man, Os Dez Mandamentos, The Green Pastures, The Life of Moses, The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation, The Moon of Israel, The Prince of Egypt, The Ten Commandments
Connections
Succession in office 1
Identification 3
Recorded events and days 2
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