re: 'Moses was schizophrenic'

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Not to get into a huge argument about the merits of religion but to view the story from a historical perspective, as you imply above, flies in the face of all the historical and anthropological evidence that implicitly suggests that the Jews were never enslaved in mass in Egypt and that there was never a mass exodus (at least as the Bible describes it). If you remove all of the events of his story the chances of Moses being a real guy are pretty slim. Therefor if we want to discuss if the character of the story is schizophrenic that's one thing, but an argument against it cant be that he coherently wrote the story himself.

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I shouldn't have to point out the obvious but...

If the story is fiction, as you seem to imply, Moses could not be schizo...because in the world presented, he's acting as expected.

If the story is real, Moses would obviously not be schizo.

If the story is about a real man who made this all up in his mind and wrote it all down thinking it was real...then he would be schizo. I maintain, given the complexity and flow of the Torah, a schizo could not complete it in that fashion. So that leaves you with Moses being a con-man.

If someone ELSE wrote it about Moses, if you read the Torah, THEY believed Moses heard from God. Therefore, Moses would not be the schizo here. And that still doesn't answer the sustained complexity issue.