title: Why did Moses stammer? and, was Moses left-handed?
abstract: Moses, the great lawgiver, '... the chief of the prophets' according to Maimonides, probably had a speech defect. 'I am not a man of words ... for I am of slow speech, and of a slow tongue', Moses states, and later he pleads '... I am of uncircumsized lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me'. Most authorities consider these quotations to mean that he stammered.
authors.affiliation: Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, London, UK.
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Garfinkel
mesh_terms: D001633:Bible; D000076144:Egypt, Ancient; D005197:Famous Persons; D007839:Functional Laterality; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007599:Judaism / Q000266:history; D013342:Stuttering / Q000266:history*