Footnote 1 - Restoration Project: The Hebrew Bible
See Jane and John Dillenberger, “Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling—To Clean or Not to Clean,” BR 04:04.
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Footnote 2 - Bible Books
See Astrid Beck and James Sanders, “The Leningrad Codex: Rediscovering the Oldest Complete Hebrew Bible,” BR 13:04.
Footnote 1 - Bible Books
See Pamela J. Milne, “Feminist Interpretations of the Bible: Then and Now,” BR 08:05.
Footnote 2 - Why Moses Could Not Enter The Promised Land
Footnote 1 - Why Moses Could Not Enter The Promised Land
See William H.C. Propp, “Did Moses Have Horns?” BR 04:01. The reading proposed there is not, so far, generally accepted.
Footnote 2 - The Jewish Roots of the Transfiguration
Footnote 1 - The Jewish Roots of the Transfiguration
See Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?” BR 03:03.
Footnote 1 - “Spinning” the Bible
Footnote 2 - Jethro
The word vayihad is related to the Aramaic chiddudim, “prickles.” One Jewish Bible commentary explains that Jethro was so overcome with joy that he felt goose bumps. The great medieval Jewish commentator Rashi, however, says that despite Jethro’s happiness for the Israelites, he felt prickles of unease over the fate of the Egyptians.
Footnote 1 - Jethro
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