Concept
Moses
Overview
Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of Egypt
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_And perished in the rebellion of Korah._ Of the rebellion of Korah, and how he was destroyed, with his house, we have an account in the fourth book of Moses, xvi. Moses was summoned and called for this purpose, that he should lead the people out of Egypt; and his brother Aaron likewise was appointed of God as High Priest. Now Korah was also of the same tribe, and their friendship should have been enduring, and…
Martin Luther, The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained
Names Moses several times; opens on Moses.
The Israelites knew scarcely anything of God, although He was revealed to them; and this is abundantly evident from their transferring, a few days afterwards, the honor and worship due to Him to a calf, which they believed to be the god who had brought them out of Egypt. In truth, it is hardly likely that men accustomed to the superstitions of Egypt, uncultivated and sunk in most abject slavery, should have held any…
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
Names Moses several times; opens on Moses.
Onely to Moses hee spake in a more extraordinary manner in Mount Sinai, and in the Tabernacle; and to the High Priest in the Tabernacle, and in the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Temple. But Moses, and after him the High Priests were Prophets of a more eminent place, and degree in Gods favour; And God himself in express words declareth, that to other Prophets hee spake in Dreams and Visions, but to his servant Moses, in…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Names Moses several times; states what Moses is.
Philosophers who discussed Moses
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Mircea Eliade
- Ernest Renan
- Maimonides
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Philo
- Abraham ibn Daud
- Pythagoras
- Numenius of Apamea
- Jews
- Ralph Cudworth
- Charles Babbage
- Posidonius
- The Age of Reason
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- Aristobulus of Alexandria
- The Last Messiah
- Hatata
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
- Judah Messer Leon
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- John Adams
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Jesus
- Feminism
- Harvard University Press
- Book of Genesis
- Historian
- Homer
- Abrahamic religions
- Abraham
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Holy Land
- Judaism
- Jerome
- Jerusalem
- Jacob
- Justin Martyr
- Jewish philosophy
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Levant
- Christians
- Joseph (Genesis)
Place in the tradition
Part of Jewish philosophy.