Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Autor(a) de The Beginning of Desire
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Obras por Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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- Data de nascimento
- 1944
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK (birth)
- Locais de residência
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Educação
- Cambridge University (PHD|English Literature)
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- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 794
- Popularidade
- #32,083
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 23
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- 2
A few things I learned this time around. I hope Ms. Zornberg will agree with me:
* God wanted Moses to speak in his own voice when he returned to Egypt; having Aaron talk in his place meant that something was lost in translation (as it were). Even with Moses' stuttering and stumbling, his message would have been more authentic and, perhaps, better heard and acted on.
* When Moses pleads with God to let him enter Canaan, God abruptly ends the conversation. Zornberg asks why this is included in the Deuteronomy and suggests that Moses hoped, desperately needed, wanted the people to then entreat God to let Moses go with them. But he can't ask them to do this, the request must arise from them on their own or it is not sincere.
* Perhaps Moses smashes the tablets when he descends from the mountain and sees the people partying around the Golden Calf so that he is also guilty of disobeying God. When God then offers to destroy the people and start fresh with Moses, Moses can show that things would not work out any better because he is like the people.… (mais)