Welcome David.

Here is an interesting article about an “alternate” account of Moses that seems to be embedded in the biblical narrative.  

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The other tradition is much humbler in scale. It begins with a smaller group of Jacob’s descendants in Egypt. Amram, the father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam, is the grandson of the patriarch Levi, and his wife Jochebed is the daughter of Levi. (See Exodus 2:1, Exodus 6:16–20, and Numbers 26:57–59. Due to the blatant contradiction with the 400-year Egyptian sojourn, many English translations obscure or alter these passages — the NIV in particular.)

Pharaoh fears a future increase in their number, so he commands the two midwives who attend to them (Shiphrah and Puah, Exodus 1:15) to kill the Hebrews’ male babies. The midwives disobey his order, however, and Moses is born.

In this tradition, Moses leads the descendants of Jacob (just two generations’ worth) out of Egypt. He is capable of addressing the entire group at once and managing their affairs as a single individual. All the protagonists of the story are related to one another.

Moses and Aaron do not die in the wilderness, but settle the children of Israel in the Promised Land (1 Sam 12.8). At the end of the book of Judges, Moses’ grandson Jonathan becomes the priest to the Danites (Jg 18:30), and Aaron’s grandson Pinehas becomes a priest of Bethel (Jg 20:28). When all the events now portrayed in Exodus through Judges from the “large-scale tradition” are taken into account, there is no way this period of time could be just a generation or two removed from the events of the Exodus.

Giovanni Garbini (** you do not have permission to see this link **) also notes that the Hellenistic Jewish writers Demetrius, Eupolemus and Artapanus all describe Moses as a cultural hero who arrived in Jerusalem, as does the Greek writer Hecataeus of Abdera. These writers seem not to have known the Exodus story in its now-canonical form.

Interesting note about 1 Sam 12:8 referenced in the article:

In the Masoretic Text, the verb “settled” (or “made them dwell”) is plural, making Moses and Aaron the subjects who brought the people into the land! In the LXX, the verb is singular, making God the one who personally settled them in the land. 

Whoops! 

The Academia.edu link provided in the body of the article is dead so here is a PDF of Jan-Wim Wesselius’ paper.  The section on Moses begins on page 11 but the entire paper is definitely worth reading. 

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