Moses cannot look directly at God and Semele is destroyed when she tries to do so with Zeus. St. Paul imagines seeing God face to face, however, as does Rabindranath Tagore.
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Tag Archives: Moses
An Act of Kinship with One of a Feared Race
Poems by Andrea Skevington and Margaret Mackinnon on Pharaoh’s daughter and infant Moses, along with comments on reaching across ethnic lines in dark times.
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Running into the Fire
Oliver and Whyte have poems about running toward fire, an unsettling metaphor during this fire season but thematically sound.
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Milton on the Ten Commandments
In Milton’s view of Moses, the law he receives is a temporary measure, ultimately to be superseded by divine grace.
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The Bloody Flesh Our Only Food
I share a Good Friday poem by T. S. Eliot and a Passover poem by Norman Finkelstein.
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A Positive Spin on the Golden Calf
Rabbi Jacob Staub’s account of the golden calf is much different, and a lot more fun, than the Exodus version.
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A Cradle Yet Shall Save the Earth
Mark Twain has fun in “Huckleberry Finn” with today’s New Testament reading, which is about Moses being discovered in “the bushrushers.” Victor Hugo also has a charming poem about the incident.
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