{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "moses",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/moses/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Moses",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "The central prophetic teacher of Jewish tradition, Moses is presented through the Torah as liberator, covenant mediator and communal leader. Prokopton42 attributes the five Torah books to him by explicit editorial convention.",
    "body": "Moses belongs to a traditionally reconstructed late second-millennium BCE horizon. No secure absolute chronology for his life is available.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "traditional late 2nd millennium BCE horizon; disputed",
        "era": "",
        "distance": "",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "detail": "Judaism",
        "labels": [
            "Judaism"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": -1200,
        "display": "1200 BCE",
        "reason": "Moses belongs to a traditionally reconstructed late second-millennium BCE horizon. No secure absolute chronology for his life is available."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 5,
        "passages": 187,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "he"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 0
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Egypt and the Nile setting",
            "period": "birth and early life in the Torah narrative; absolute date unknown",
            "description": "Exodus places Moses' birth and upbringing in Egypt. The point is regional and does not identify a residence, dynasty or Pharaoh.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.exodus&ref=2"
        },
        {
            "name": "Midian",
            "period": "flight, family life and call in Exodus 2-4; absolute date unknown",
            "description": "The Torah names Midian, but its territorial extent and the precise location of the narrated episodes remain uncertain.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.exodus&ref=3"
        },
        {
            "name": "Horeb / Mount Sinai",
            "period": "call and covenant in Exodus; location disputed",
            "description": "The marker represents the southern Sinai tradition only. The biblical mountain has no securely established modern identification.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.exodus&ref=19"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sea of Reeds region",
            "period": "departure from Egypt in Exodus 13-15; route disputed",
            "description": "This regional marker does not equate the Hebrew place name with a certain modern crossing or with one branch of the Red Sea.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.exodus&ref=14"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wilderness of Paran",
            "period": "wilderness itinerary in Numbers 10-13; exact extent uncertain",
            "description": "Numbers names Paran as an itinerary region. The plotted point is deliberately approximate.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.numbers&ref=10"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kadesh-barnea / Ain Qudeirat tradition",
            "period": "Numbers 13 and 20; modern identification probable but not certain",
            "description": "A major wilderness setting in the Torah narrative. Ain Qudeirat is a common modern identification, retained here as qualified rather than certain.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.numbers&ref=20"
        },
        {
            "name": "Plains of Moab",
            "period": "final encampment in Numbers and Deuteronomy; absolute date unknown",
            "description": "The Torah places the final speeches east of the Jordan in the plains of Moab. The marker is regional.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.deuteronomy&ref=1"
        },
        {
            "name": "Mount Nebo / Pisgah",
            "period": "death narrative in Deuteronomy 34; absolute date unknown",
            "description": "Deuteronomy places Moses' final view and death on Nebo or Pisgah in Moab. The modern site preserves a strong location tradition, not proof of the narrated event.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "/library.php?work=moses.deuteronomy&ref=34"
        }
    ],
    "content_checksum": "ba104985b47f882375105d450ac2f70a270bf3a4e60b534fea1255668ef00f64"
}