Moses

Stands beside Elijah at the Transfiguration (9:30) and anchors the risen Jesus's own Bible study on the Emmaus road (24:27, 24:44). Josephus has Moses announce his own death at 120 in his own voice, matching Deuteronomy 34:7's age note exactly, three centuries later. Philo devoted an entire two-volume biography to him alone, it opens on the same infancy-narrative beat Exodus 2 does, an unusually beautiful baby, but reads it as the first sign of what he'd become.

Moses was born a Hebrew slave in Egypt and raised in Pharaoh's own household, only to flee into the desert after killing an Egyptian overseer and spend the next forty years as a shepherd in Midian. God called him back through the burning bush to confront Pharaoh and lead Israel out of slavery, and Moses spent the rest of his life shaping that liberated people into a nation, delivering the law at Sinai and leading them through forty years in the wilderness before dying within sight of the promised land at a hundred and twenty. He is named more often than anyone else in the Old Testament, and archaeology confirms plenty of the world he moved through, the store cities, the Egyptian court, the route through Sinai, without ever turning up a record of Moses himself.