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But the saddest interpretation is that Moses is penalized for mourning his sister. Few figures in Exodus are as vividly drawn, if infrequently featured, as Miriam. It is she who, as a child, saw to it that Pharaoh's daughter temporarily returned Moses to his natural mother to be breast...
The incident at Meribah begins with the stark announcement, "Miriam died there and was buried there." The next sentence is, "The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron." This abrupt shift has fascinated scholars, including Hebrew Union College's Cohen. "His need is mourning," Cohen points...
And then one day, just before a military victory and just after settling the question of whether daughters could inherit if there were no sons (yes), God matter-of-factly instructs Moses: "Ascend these heights of Abarim...and view the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites as...
Before he dies, Moses is granted a valedictory. Tradition attributes all Deuteronomy to the period before his death, and it contains a recap of Israelite history, an extraordinary catalog of law and ritual, and a near Shakespearean exhortation to the generation that will cross into Canaan. Here is an old...
And then, "at last," writes Kirsch, "Moses seemed to run out of both laws and memories." The 120-year-old "went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho," recounts the Bible. And then, "Moses the servant of the Lord died there...