Holy Moses!

About the Book

About the Author

In writing this novel, the author hoped to offer the reader of Holy Moses! a reasonably more probable version of how Exodus was likely first reduced to written form, based on what most probably were the ancient origin myths of a small semi-nomadic Tribe or Tribes in the Middle East around the 12th Century BCE. If the modern reader accepts the premise that the first Hebrew text of the Torah on cured lambskin was only first reduced to some written form near the 4th or even the 3rd Century BCE, then it is reasonable to argue that both before and after, the story had to be edited and revised and on occasion redacted to reflect the then pressing political and theological issues facing the Tribes as they sought to merge different tribes and to establish a common accepted history of the two nations, Israel and Judah, which were needed to unify a unique people and to establish a Nation between the then most powerful and aggressive Middle Eastern World’s Superpowers, Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia and Persia. The long history of the Jews, who were the people who succeeded the ancient Hebrew Tribes from the 1st Century, BCE, until today continues despite centuries of almost countless successive bloody conquests and expulsions of the Jews, which continued almost without interruption through the Middle Ages and the 18th and 19th Centuries pogroms in Eastern Europe; and then the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, all of which seriously threatened the continued existence of the Jewish People. However, since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, which was once thought to be a safe homeland for the Jews, Israel has had to survive a half of a century of Arab sponsored Wars of Extinction, and now faces the real and voiced threat of atomic weapons used by newly militant Islam. The current threats to the continued existence of the Jewish People, whose total numbers remain comparatively insignificant, perhaps six million in the United States where the threat of assimilation is constant, and perhaps five million in Israel, where the threat is to the continued existence of that Jewish State in an Arab and Persian world. This novel’s treatment of the ancient history of the Jews may be subject to serious question and even proper argument, but given the undisputed history of the Jews repeatedly being exiled from lands in which they thought they had found a home, and the unforgettable memory of the stories which showed narrow escapes from extinction, every thoughtful Jew has to wonder if his own generation might be the last generation of Jews which may trouble the World, and that is what should compel most Jews, like the author to know well the history of his People.