The Man Who Never Saw the Land
A modern narrative biography of Moses, written for this site rather than translated from an ancient source, weighing the biblical account against the archaeological and historical record of New Kingdom Egypt and the Exodus for readers with no religious or academic background. Traces the man the text gives us -- birth, flight, the burning bush, the plagues, Sinai, the forty years, and a death outside the promised land -- alongside the evidence for what can and can't be verified, and the story's own long afterlife from Philo and the rabbis to the American civil rights movement. Illustrated throughout with historical maps of Egypt, the Sinai, and the Levant.