Moses or Moshe. A Response To Reno Omokri.

I stumbled on a piece by Reno on the name of Moses. This is my response to him as he often asked to be fact checked. It is a long read and so I divided it into two. I got interested because it involves the bible.

Reno wrote
"Moses Is Likely a Lukumi Yoruba Name"

My response
Well, he is clever enough to use the word "likely". That means he is not sure and there is no conclusive evidence for that. What I find disturbing is how he went ahead to use what he describes as "likely" to make a case against standard and acceptable scholarly conclusions.

Moses is not a Lukumi Yoruba word. It is the English rendition of the Hebrew name; Moshe. You find it in Exodus 2. The problem that scripture scholars has about it is how Pharoah's daughter, who never spoke or understood Hebrew could give a child a Hebrew name. Many Jewish scholars have debated this. I hereby refer you to the piece written by Dr Rabbi David J. Zucker titled: DID PHAROAH'S DAUGHTER NAME MOSES? IN HEBREW? Goggle it and read, it is short and scholarly.

Reno wrote:
"First and foremost, there is nothing like Moses. Moses, as a name, does not exist, and if you bear the name Moses, you are bearing a meaningless name."

My Response:
The same Reno who asserted that Moses is "likely" a Lukumi-Yoruba name, and will spend the rest of his thesis to argue it, is now saying the name is meaningless. Hian, i don't know if this is intellectual schizophrenia or amnesia.

Reno went on to say Egypt does not exist in the Hebrew bible, that what you find there is Mitzrayim. of course, when you read the Greek bible, Egypt doesn't exist there, what you see is 'Aigyptos'. Egypt is the English translation of the Hebrew.

To say Egypt doesn't exist in the Hebrew bible is a common sense statement just like saying Mitzrayim doesn't exist in the English bible. If you read the bible in Hebrew, you will see Mitzrayim where Egypt is referred. If you read the bible in English, you will see Egypt where Mitzrayim is referred. Obviously this commonsensical knowledge isn't what Reno suggests.

Reno wrote:
"And that Moshe is not a Hebrew name. It is a name in the language of the people who lived and ruled Mitzrayim before it became Egypt"

My Response:
I have already addressed this: Moshe is the Hebrew for Moses. Mitzrayim didn't become Egypt, they are one and same place in different languages.

Reno wrote:
"When Europeans were translating the Hebrew Bible into Latin, Greek, English, and other European languages, they rendered the name Moshe as Moses, a word that has no meaning. Basically, it is gobbledygook—a nonsense word."

My response
A nonsense word is what Reno battled to link its origin to Lukumi-Yoruba. Reno needs to sit down and interrogate himself.

Reno wrote:
"Please assume I am lying and fact-check me"

My response
Yes bro, it's either you are lying or you are resourcefully using your ignorance to sound scholarly.

Reno Wrote
"In Israel, Jews don't bear Moses. They bear Moshe."

My response
Reno, In Nigeria alone, the Hausa speaking parts bear Musa, the English speaking parts bear Moses. Same name, different languages. Whether you bear Moses or Moshe, it is same name.