Assertion: hypothesis | /r/HasProperty | historical moses
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text: Even if there truly is a kernel of truth to the narratives as those who postulated the theory had hoped, be it the historical Moses (whomever that may have been) or some sort of Israelite connection to Mount Sinai, there's no reasonable way to identify which is what — which elements were historical and which were invented to justify controversial viewpoints contemporary to the redactor(s); which elements were part of the 'original' Urtext of the Exodus mythos and which are later additions;
text: Both of these ideas claimed a scientific basis, and both could produce evidence to support their hypotheses - historical evidence on the part of Marx, and clinical case studies on the part of the Freud.