Moses with the Tables of the Law, Rembrandt, 1659.
“She put the child into it and placed it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.”
– Exodus 2-3
“Carve two tablets of stone like the first and I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered.”
– Exodus 34-1
What can we learn about Moses’ roots from his name? What does this tell us about the authenticity of the Exodus story?