Bible Review

Slight variants of the passage may be found in Mark 11:9–10 and John 12:13.

CATAB, Gérard E. Weil (Lyons, France).

This is the Michigan-Claremont text (encoded by H. Van Dyke Parunak and Richard Whitaker).

For a more detailed exposition of my views, see William H. Propp, “The Skin of Moses’ Face—Transfigured or Disfigured?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 49 (1987), pp. 375–386.

Note that the P source also says that when God’s glory filled the Tabernacle Moses was unable to enter (Exodus 40:35).

Most biblical scholars today accept that the Torah is a composite text assembled by an editor in the Exilic or early post-Exilic period (sixth-fifth centuries B.C.) out of four documents: J (the Yahwistic source), E (the Elohistic source), P (the Priestly source) and D (the Deuteronomic source). For a recent synthesis, see Richard E. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987).

James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 433.

For example, Greta Hort, “The Plagues of Egypt,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 69 (1957), pp. 84–103; and also 70 (1958), pp. 48–59.

Bernardus D. Eerdmans, The Covenant at Mount Sinai Viewed in the Light of Antique Thought (Leyden: Burgersdijk and Niermans, 1939).