In just 18 verses, Moses climbs the same mountain several times, 74 people see the God of Israel (who has feet, and a sapphire floor), and the narrative keeps doubling back on itself, leaving the fingerprints of multiple sources stitched into one story.
Plus: Metatron in the Talmud, what those "pillars" actually were, and the Septuagint's quiet edit to verse 10 that Dan wrote his Oxford thesis on.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro and Setup1:02 Setting the Scene in Exodus
2:08 Where Is Mount Sinai?
3:02 Which Ten Commandments?
4:04 The Covenant Code
6:11 Come Up to the Lord
7:25 Enter Metatron
9:01 The People Agree... Twice
10:22 Altar and Twelve Pillars
12:16 Blood of the Covenant
12:41 Standing Stones, Not Columns
14:45 The Story Without 3-8
16:58 They Saw God
17:40 No One Sees God and Lives
18:47 Melammu and Divine Glory
19:55 God Has Feet
20:49 The Sapphire Firmament
21:55 A Covenant Meal
22:28 Was It Just a Vision?
23:25 The Septuagint's Edit
24:58 Come Up to Me... Again
26:19 The Priestly Cloud
27:50 Forty Days and Nights
28:56 One Chapter, Many Sources
31:41 Outro
Interview:
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