enter into a new culture of being a figurative shepherd to redeem figurative sheep. Several speculative could be asked in regards to Moses’ shepherding that brought him to Mount Sinai. Why would he bring the sheep such a long way across a desert? Did he leave the sheep unattended at the base of the mountain to wander off, or did he somehow manage to urge the poor creatures up the mountain and then forget about them when encountering the burning bush? The historian Josephus described Mount Horeb (also known as Mount Sinai) as, “not only very difficult to be ascended on account of its vast altitude, but because of the sharpness of its precipices…” According both Native American and ANE tradition, a place is considered sacred if it is deemed…show more content… In addition, the Yahwist narrative claims that the original Hebrew text of verse six says “I am the God of your father-in-law,” not father. There appears to be a contradiction when 3:2 says that an angel appeared, while verse 4 says God called from within the bush. Similar instances are found throughout the Old Testament and are justified as being used interchangeably through the Christian doctrine of the Trinity by saying, “this angel was a reincarnate manifestation of Christ as God’s messenger-servant.” Regardless of what lens theologians use to view the burning bush is was obvious that Moses was more caught up in the strangeness of the bush remaining intact than the reverence of experiencing the Lord. We’re often like that today, too. But Moses did not fully realize who he was dealing with because he had spent his life with the Egyptian and Midianite deities. That’s why the Lord chastised Moses in verse 3:5. The command to take off one’s shoes is a humbling action. In the Bible, dirty traveling shoes contracted defilement. There is no description anywhere in the cannon implying that priests wore shoes during worship in their holy
