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> Any critical attempt to assess the historicity of the portrait of Moses presented in Exodus to Deuteronomy must take into account a number of characteristics of this literature and its presentation. First, many of the stories are legendary in character and are built on folktale motifs found in various cultures. The theme of the threatened child who eventually becomes a great figure, for example, was employed from Mesopotamia to Rome and appears in the stories about Sargon the Great, Heracles, Oedipus, Romulus and Remus, Cyrus, and Jesus.
I think this is very good advice, remember, the dominant method of reading the Bible throughout its history has been to read the Old Testament through the New (to be more theological, to read it in light of God revealed in his most perfect image, Christ). To Magus' Gospels ---> Acts ---> Epistles plan I'd suggest that you then hit up Genesis (which is looks like you already did) --> Exodus (ditto) ---> Psalms ---> the Prophets ---> the rest (hell, I'd skip Deuteronomy and Leviticus, I find them exceedingly dull) --> the Apocrypha (which definitely has some of the best stories) in roughly that order. That will give you a better overall picture of how the Bible has been read throughout the last 2000 years.
Something like this can be extraordinarily helpful as well.