Ancient Mystery: Could This 3,800-Year-Old Egyptian Inscription Really Be Moses’ Signature?
“This may suggest a Joseph-like official of the pharaoh’s court, perhaps the Semitic Vizier Ankhu,” Bar-Ron writes. “Evidence for a Semitic presence in the court of this ruler is bolstered by Sinai 350… This evidence is in the form of a logogram in its upper righthand corner.”
Bar-Ron’s work has not been peer-reviewed, however, and not all scholars are convinced. Some have even pushed back against the research.
Controversy Surrounding The Proto-Thesis About The Possible Moses Inscription
Part of the issue is that, while Proto-Sinaitic is the earliest known alphabet, its characters are incredibly difficult to decipher. As such, there is always the chance that Bar-Ron misinterpreted the message.
Per The Daily Mail, University of British Columbia professor and Egyptologist Dr. Thomas Schneider labeled Bar-Ron’s claims as “completely unproven and misleading,” adding that “arbitrary identifications of letters can distort ancient history.”
Michael S. Bar-RonResearcher Michael S. Bar-Ron looking over scans of the inscriptions.
Meanwhile, Bar-Ron’s academic advisor, Dr. Pieter van der Veen, confirmed Bar-Ron’s reading and defended the research.
“Michael is doing an extremely careful job at this,” he told Patterns of Evidence. “He’s very self-critical and he’s trying to prove himself wrong. This is the only scholarly approach that I could recommend. If anything is to result from this in terms of early Israelite history, then it’s going to be through this type of high level work.”
In the proto-thesis and in interviews, Bar-Ron emphasized that his work is not yet finished — and that he hopes to find evidence to convince even the most skeptical scholars.
“I took a very critical view towards finding the name ‘Moses’ or anything that could sound sensationalist,” he said. “In fact, the only way to do serious work is to try not to find elements that seem ‘Biblical,’ but to struggle to find alternative solutions that are at least likely… One motive for what I do is to honestly see if there is actual extraordinary evidence that anyone, who is trained, would be able to recognize.”
For now, the debate over Bar-Ron’s findings continues.
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