ok lets talk about the historical moses for a minute. but first, we need some background information!

the dates for the life of the historical moses are pretty up in the air, with estimates ranging from the 16th to 11th centuries bce. however, the rabinnic jews date his life to the 13th and 12th centuries BCE. as we all know, moses lived in egypt for much of his life. during this time, a new king had ascended to the pharaoh in egypt- amenhotep iv. up until this time, the egyptian religion was polytheistic in nature, and did not focus on the worship of any one particular deity. amenhotep iv decided to switch things up, and the egyptian state religion began to focus primarily on aten, the sun god (amenhotep changed his name to akhenaten as well.) it was still polytheistic in nature, but aten became THE GOD for all intents and purposes. interestingly enough, egyptian art from this period underwent remarkable change as well. so, its not too much of a stretch to consider that moses may have been a priest of aten during this time, and converted to worshipping yahweh after the fall of akhenaten's pharaoh, eventually leading a large group of hebrews out of egypt. this theory was postulated by sigmund freud in his book, "moses and monotheism," in 1939. freud also figured that moses had been murdered by the jews in the wilderness at some point, but that's where i part ways with his logic because it seems pretty conjectural.

what are your thoughts? what do you think about the chances of the historical moses being an egyptian priest of aten?