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Moses is a hero. His prominence in the narratives of exodus from Egypt, the wanderings in the wilderness, and the journey to the brink of the Promised Land make Moses a central figure in Old Testament history and literature. Further evidence of the magnitude of Moses’ influence is also found outside the Christian and Jewish traditions—in extra-biblical literature, in Renaissance art, in modern...

to me that the term is a general element of tradition, an epithet which in these contexts has no specific qualification for the Moses figure. The other two references to Moses as man of God in the Chronicler (2 Chron. 30:16 and Ezra 3:3) plus the reference in the Deuteronomistic Historian (Josh. 14:6) are more substantial for defining the shape of the overall picture of Moses. The Chronicler’s view of Moses as the man of God resides with the general patterns of Moses as lawgiver. 2 Chron. 30:16 refers
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