{"id":68728,"date":"2020-01-19T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=68728"},"modified":"2020-01-19T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:26:28","slug":"mosesing-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/mosesing-his-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosesing His People??"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"68728","type":"event","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"397","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When Moses becomes a verb\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">63:11 \u201cBut He recalled the days of yore, drawing His people out from the water: Where is He Who brought them up from the sea, the shepherds of his flock? Where is He Who put in their midst His holy spirit?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mosheh \u2018amo<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> should not be construed as \u201cMoses his people,\u201d which would make little sense. Instead, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mosheh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is used as a verb here, the verb with which the name of Moses is etymologized. This usage is clear because of the next line, \u201cWhere is He Who brought them up from the sea.\u201d But the poet interprets the Moses story as he invokes the miracle at the Sea of Reeds: the infant Moses drawn from the water is a prefiguration of Israel saved from the waters as the sea is split open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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