Word: yahweh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge a stockpile of ancient art has survived is in part due to the fact that, remote and detached, Mount Sinai has long been a still point in a turning world. It marks a spot sacred to three religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There Moses heard the voice of Yahweh out of the burning bush, commanding him to go down to Egypt and set Israel free. On the journey to the Promised Land, Moses stopped again at Sinai, climbed to the peak and received the Tablets of the Law. Among Christians, Mount Sinai is also revered as the shrine...
...miles of the God-inspired, prophetic Moses who stirred the soul and genius of the Chosen People and marked out the whole history of civilized man. From Sinai to Gilead. Jephta and His Daughter fits neatly beside Fast's Moses. Seven generations have passed since Moses covenanted with Yahweh to worship Him alone. In that time the wheel has turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only a fragment of a disunited Israel but have become easygoing polytheists. Yahweh is no longer the fire-god of Sinai...