I wish not to become embroiled in the seemingly
never ending back and forth on Jim's ideas. However I am interested in
the possibility of narrative material produced by some educated Asiatics
domeciled in Egypt. The story of Moses is that he was born, raised, and
educated among the elite of the elite in Egypt. This bespeaks a
literary training in hieratic. This man would have known the classics
(i.e. Sinuhe, etc.) well. All "narrative" of this time and location was
composed in hieratic. Perhaps a figure fitting the description of Moses
did know "ethnic" proto-Hebrew script. That does not a-priori mean he
would compose narrative material in that script to the exclusion of
hieratic.