Osarseph or Osarsiph () is a legendary figure of Ancient Egypt who has been equated with Moses. According to Josephus, the 1st century CE Jewish polemicist, the story of Osarseph was recounted by the Ptolemaic Egyptian priest Manetho in his Aegyptiaca (first half of the 3rd century BC). Manetho's work is lost, but Josephus relates extensively from what he maintains are epitomes of the original.
Osarseph or Osarsiph () is a legendary figure of Ancient Egypt who has been equated with Moses. According to Josephus, the 1st century CE Jewish polemicist, the story of Osarseph was recounted by the Ptolemaic Egyptian priest Manetho in his Aegyptiaca (first half of the 3rd century BC). Manetho's work is lost, but Josephus relates extensively from what he maintains are epitomes of the original.
According to Josephus’s quotation of Manetho in Against Apion (I.26–31), Osarseph was an Ancient Egyptian priest from Heliopolis who led a revolt of people described as lepers and “unclean” against a pharaoh named Amenophis (the Greek form of Amenhotep, referring either to Amenhotep II or Amenhotep IV). The rebels allied themselves with the expelled Hyksos, who, according to Josephus, returned from the region later associated with Jerusalem in his narrative, to join them in despoiling Egypt, before being expelled once more when Amenophis regained power. Toward the end of the story, Osarseph is said to have changed his name to Moses.
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