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The respected Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein says that over 90 per cent of scholars do not believe there ever was an Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible. On this view, Moses could never have been alive in the historical sense. And the Amarna Letters prove conclusively that Palestine continued to be ruled by petty Canaanite kings under overall Egyptian control until at least 1270 BCE.

So, Moses is certainly biblical, in fact one of the most important people in the Bible. But he was not historical.

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Both. Moses was a real person that led the nation of Israel at about 1445 BC. Google search it.

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