What type of person is Moses?

Answer 1

Moses from The Bible? He more kind of 'was' than 'is'.

He was a 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant descendent of a bunch of nomadic tribes people, from a place called Canaan who were so dominated by a single family called "Israel" that they liked to call themselves "Israelites"; and who, having failed to make ends meet in their own land, had trecked over to Egypt in search of food for their empty bellies.

Moses had a kind of privileged up-bringing in the royal court (following a bizarre set of events), away from his family. And that up-bringing will have given him self-confidence and a certain lack of defference to authority; but it also gave him some patriotic feeling for the plight of his own ethnic group who were increasingly out of favour by the Pharaoh and his cronies.

He was a leader, either by birth or by up-bringing, and led his compatriots up and out of Egypt, with some intention of leading them back home to Canaan. Beyond a doubt, Moses was a devout follower of his religion; but with equal certainty, he was no navigator. He led the Israelites a merry dance for some 40 years to travel around 400km, and actually expired before getting there.

That's the sort of peron Moses was.

Answer 2

Moses was born 245 years after the death of Abraham. Pharaoh had decreed that Israelite boys be killed (Exodus ch.1), but the daughter of Pharaoh took pity on the infant Moses (Exodus ch.2) and raised him as her own son. He was forced to flee after killing a cruel Egyptian taskmaster, and went to Midian, where he wedded the daughter of Jethro. He eventually achieved the highest level of prophecy (Deuteronomy ch.34) and was called upon by God (Exodus ch.3). He brought the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery (Exodus ch.12). He received the Torah from God (Exodus 24:12) and later recorded it in writing (Deuteronomy 31:24). He went up on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights (Deuteronomy ch.9-10) and brought down the Two Stone Tablets with the Ten Commandments (Exodus 31:18). He brought the Israelites into the covenant with God (Exodus ch.19 and ch.24), and he oversaw the building of the Tabernacle (Exodus ch.35-40). He was the humblest of men and the greatest of prophets (Numbers ch.12).

Answer 3

The very humble servant of God (Numbers ch.12); the greatest of all prophets, who spoke to God face to face (Deuteronomy ch.34).