Moses (/ˈmoʊzɪz,-zɪs/),[note 1] also known as Moshe Rabbenu
(Hebrew: ×žÖ¹×©Ö¶× ×" רַ×'ֵּנוּ‎, lit. 'Moses our Teacher'),
is the most important prophet in Judaism, and an important prophet in
Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and a number of other
Abrahamic religions. In the biblical narrative he was the leader of
the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the first five
books of the bible, the Torah, or "acquisition of the Torah from
heaven," is attributed.Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of
Moses corresponding to 1391â€"1271 BCE; Jerome suggested 1592 BCE, and
James Ussher suggested 1571 BCE as his birth year.[note 2] Scholarly
consensus sees Moses as a legendary figure, while retaining the
possibility that a Moses-like figure existed.According to the Book of
Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an
enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the
Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's
enemies. Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the
Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to
reduce the population of the Israelites. Through the Pharaoh's
daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was
adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the
Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was
beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he
encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a
burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God. Moses Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter