OLD Testament?: "Money, Religion, Politics, 'Medicine', Law, Education, Information, Society," Et Al, IE EG "Civilization ~ Culture ~ Higher Intelligence?" Et Cetera

 ~Moses persuaded right-minded persons to accompany him in large numbers, to the place standing now as Jerusalem ... The Hebrew word can also mean “horns,” and when Michelangelo sculpted a marble Moses in 1515, he relied on Jerome's description in the Latin Vulgate translation. The resulting 235-cm-high horned statue can be seen in Rome (S. Pietro in Vincoli) today ..

 

http://www.tihof.org/honors/jerome.htm

.. The original Hebrew scripture (Exodus 34) stated that when Moses descended from Mt. Sinai, he had “rays of light” coming from his head. 

 

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-wandering-who-gilad-atzmon-book.html 

 

THE WANDERING WHO? GILAD ATZMON a "Book Review Chapters 1 - 5," tbc

GILAD ATZMON:  THE WANDERING WHO? A STUDY OF JEWISH IDENTITY POLITICS ~

• A transformative story told with unflinching integrity that all [especially Jews] who care about real peace, as well as their own identity, should not only read, but reflect upon and discuss widely.  Richard Falk

zero books, Winchester, UK - Washington, USA, Text copyright:  Gilad Atzmon 2011

~"Book Review" Chapters 1 - 5, to be continued, for consideration in critical thinking IE EG ~

"The Nazis made me afraid to be a Jew, and the Israelis make me ashamed to be a Jew"

Forward, P 11, Para 2:  Through music, and particularly my very personal struggle with Arab music, I learned to listen .. To empathise is to accept the primacy of the ear ~

•  I am searching for the metaphysical, spiritual and socio-political connotations, Gilad Atzmon ~

 

Edict of Augustus on Jewish Rights, 1 BCE

 

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/04/rome-pompey-jews-golden-army-empire.html 

 

.. From superstition arose ... circumcision, cliterodectomy, and other practices which the people observe .. The tyrannical government produced robbery; for the rebels plundered both their own and the neighboring countries. Those also who shared in the government seized upon the property of others, and ravaged a large part of Syria and of Phoenicia. Respect, however, was paid to the Acropolis [Zion, or the Temple Mount in Jerusalem]; it was not abhorred as the seat of tyranny, but honoured and venerated as a temple ...

 

.. Such was Moses and his successors; their beginning was good, but they degenerated.