Question for Secret Alias about Ishu.

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Ulan
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Those concise summaries are great. Thanks!
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Secret Alias wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:58 pm That's why Moses is called man of God.
Which is one way of saying Moses is god right?
The metric to judge if one is a good exegete: the way he/she deals with Barabbas.

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https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/mosesangel.html
https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/mosesjubilees.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=pzo6K ... ah&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=Zdam8 ... ah&f=false

waw as a suffix means 'his.' he 'hers.' Think through the implication of the androgynous hypostasis being Ishu from Moses being called the man of God.
Come and see what is written: This is the blessing that Moses ish ha-elohim, the man of God, bestowed (Deut.33.1) master of the house, master of the Matronita — as is written: (ishah), her husband, may let it stand or ishah, her husband, may annul it (Numbers 30:14). For look, it is written (kallat Moshe), the bride of Moses (ibid. 7:1)! So Moses blessed whomever he wished and did not fear. Therefore Jacob said, 'I see that these sons of , mine are on the side of harsh Judgment. Let the master of the house come, and he will bless them!' "Surely, ish ha-Elohim, husband of Godl He did as he wished with the house, as has been established: her husband may let it stand or her husband may annul it. Her husband may let it stand — as is written: Moses said, 'Arise, O YHVH!' (ibid. 10:35). Or her husband may annul it — as is written: And when it came to rest, he would say, 'Return, O YHVH!' (ibid., 36). The master of the house surely did as he wished, with no one hindering him. (Zohar I 236b; Daniel C. Matt, trans., The Zohar, Pritzker ed., vol. 3 [Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007], p. 434)
It all comes down to one detail that often gets overlooked - the early Christians understood that only 'males' resided in heaven. Do the math.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
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