Was the most famous prophet in history actually a ghost in the machine of the ancient world?

In this episode, we strip away the Hollywood icon—the gray beard, the staff, and the Charlton Heston charisma—to hunt for the real Moses. We dig into the uncomfortable silence of Egyptian records and explore the shocking theory that Moses wasn't a Hebrew liberator, but a high-ranking Egyptian nobleman who shed his identity.

We uncover:

• The Name Game: Why "Moses" is actually an Egyptian name (and what it really means).

• The Cover-Up: Did the Pharaohs erase the Exodus from history, or did it never happen?

• The Evidence: From the Merneptah Stele to a mysterious "four-room house" found in Western Thebes.

• The Freud Theory: Why the father of psychoanalysis believed Moses was murdered by his own people.

• The Legacy: How a mistranslation gave Michelangelo's Moses horns, and how the prophet inspired the American Revolution.

Join us as we sift through the sands of the Sinai, decode hieroglyphs, and challenge the timeline of the 13th Century B.C.E. to find the man behind the myth.

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• 00:00 – Intro: The Giant of Monotheism vs. The Ghost of History

• 02:15 – The Identity Crisis: Why "Moses" is an Egyptian Name

• 05:00 – The "Basket in the River" Trope: Sargon of Akkad vs. Moses

• 07:45 – The Deafening Silence: Why Egypt kept no records of the Exodus

• 10:20 – The Ramesses II Connection: Pinpointing the 13th Century B.C.E.

• 13:50 – The Smoking Gun? The "Four-Room House" in Thebes

• 15:40 – The Merneptah Stele: The first historical mention of "Israel"

• 18:15 – The "Leper Colony" Theory: Manetho’s rewrite of history

• 20:50 – Sigmund Freud’s Dark Theory: Was Moses an Egyptian Prince?

• 24:10 – Why does Michelangelo’s Moses have horns? (The Translation Error)

• 26:45 – The American Moses: Ben Franklin, Harriet Tubman, and MLK

• 29:30 – Conclusion: The Prophetic Mirror

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