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This is Israel's appalling nadir. Yet it sets up Moses' finest hour. Seeing the calf from afar, God makes Moses a chilling offer: "Now, let me be, that my anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation," an...
Rather than erase him, God rewards him. At Moses' request, God agrees to reveal himself to Moses. "But, you cannot see my face," he explains. But "see there is a place near me. Station yourself on the rock and, as my Presence passes by, I will put you in a...
The golden-calf sequence is in many ways the high point of Moses' career. Gone is the stuttering shepherd, replaced by a mighty leader who bears some of the marks of divinity. Never again in the Hebrew Bible will any human attain the fond intimacy of being helped into place...
But why deny Moses entry? In God's own words, "You disobeyed my command about the waters of Meribah." In a close replay of an earlier crisis, the people run out of water and "join against" their now 119-year-old leader. As before, God advises Moses, telling him to...
It seems the most hairsplitting of technicalities. In Moses: A Life, Kirsch writes, "Against the blow of a wooden staff upon a dry rock, a lifetime of struggle, hardship and faithful service counted for nothing." Some analysts think biblical editors expunged Moses' real sin, whatever it was. Others say his...