One of the notable Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles is that by Richard B Rackham, first published in 1901. He, with others identified (or thought he did) some fifteen discrepancies between Stephen’s comments on Israelitish history and the original Old Testament record. We want to re-visit some of these and see if we can discern a reasonable understanding of the facts of the matter.
Moses was 40 at the time he fled Egypt (Acts 7:23-29) – but the book of exodus does not say so.
Rackham puts it this way: “The age of Moses at the crisis, forty years, was discovered by the rabbinical interpreters. Forty is the Jewish round number. The Old Testament only state…
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