Freud argued that Akhenaten was striving to promote monotheism, something that the biblical Moses was able to achieve.

Leucippus is widely credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, although Isaac Newton preferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of Posidonius and Strabo.

"He thought the movie created a particular Moses that wouldn't let you see anymore the biblical Moses."

- "Speak softly and carry a big stick" was Theodore Roosevelt's way of reminding himself to live like the biblical Moses, who had a speech impediment and carried a large staff.

What passers-by see are Mr. Waite's anatomically realistic depictions of a chief of an American Indian tribe, an escaped slave, the biblical Moses, a mother grieving for a child lost to war, and the infant Jesus and the Virgin Mary.

He identifies the pharaoh of the Exodus as Amenhotep III and the biblical Moses as Crown Prince Tuthmosis, Amenhotep's first-born son and heir to his throne.

He called the biblical Moses "a juggler," or second-rate magician, and referred to Christ as a not-so-pious fraud.