In the 3rd century BC, Manetho, a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleged that Moses was not a Jew, but an Egyptian renegade priest, called Osarseph, and portrayed the Exodus as the expulsion of a leper colony.

• 公元前三世纪，希腊化的埃及年代记编者和祭司曼内托，声称摩西不是一个犹太人，而是一位背叛埃及的祭司，称为奥萨瑟夫，被当作一批被逐出的受蔑视侨民而描写在《出埃及记》上。