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...modern Torah commentary provides a map listing eight possible locations for Mount Sinai, two of which are not even in the Sinai peninsula. Wherever it was, however, God called to Moses from it, restating his ancient promise that Israel "shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples." Moses leads his followers to the foot of the mountain where God begins to speak to them. They tremble. "You speak to us and we will obey," they tell Moses,"but let not God speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called...
...shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered...
...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 at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom...
...tale takes place as Moses has gone up Mount Nebo to die. When God invites the prophet's soul out of his body, it demurs. And in the end, the Lord who has spoken through fire and water and thunder and smoke descends yet once more, and draws out the soul of Moses with a kiss...
...Oniji III playing a samurai's manservant, all red-rimmed eyes and stylish snarl, is a deliciously succinct expression of fictive bloody-mindedness. Through the medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues and social listings, in which every sort of occupation, from pit sawing to innkeeping, gets its allotted description. This scrutiny of lower-class life would never have held so much interest to an earlier Japan. Manga...