Start with the end. Just how the story of Moses is given to us. Not in triumph or resolution, but in a passage of scripture so abrupt and unadorned that it invites suspicion. Here is Deuteronomy 34:

“And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo… And the Lord shewed him all the land… And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob… I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab… but no man knoweth of his grave unto this day.”