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The Bible tells the story of how humanity came to be in possession of the Word of God, which is the set of immutable laws upon which the universe runs ( Colossians 1:15-17), and upon which a perfect society would run too if humanity would ever figure out how to apply them (that society would literally be the Word in Human Flesh). The Bible, on the other hand, is not about exclusive individual heroes but about inclusive people movements, not about the occasional superman and his adoring entourage but about the richness of human collectives, cultures and schools of thought - or in modern terms: boards, councils, think tanks, fraternities, teams, companies and so on ( Ephesians 6:12).

That trend was set by the personality cults of Rome, which bled over into Catholicism and hence Christianity at large. The assumption that the name Moses ought to be Egyptian derives from a more general assumption, namely that the heroes of the Bible are human individuals.

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Altogether, the name Moses appears eighty times in the New Testament see full concordance. Seventy-three times in the New Testament our name is spelled either as Μωσης ( Moses) or Μωσευς ( Moseus), in all four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline letters, Jude and Revelation, four times as Μωυσευς ( Mouseus), in Acts 15:1 and 15:5, 2 Timothy 3:8 and Hebrews 9:19, and three times as Μωυσης ( Mouses), in Acts 6:14, 7:35 and 7:37. That would mean that the literary character called Moses is like a mathematical equation that has multiple solutions, each no less valid than the others. That is of course, unless the name Moses meant different things in different cultural contexts. This is curious, to say the least, because the world in New Testament times was highly literate, and an important name such as Moses would have certainly gravitated toward a standardized spelling. Moses is the most referenced Old Testament hero in the New Testament, but his Greek name is spelled in four different ways. The familiar name Moses is the Latin version of the Greek name Μωσης ( Moses), which in turn is a transliteration of the Hebrew name משה (Moshe), which might ultimately be of Egyptian pedigree since Moses was named by the daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt.