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Moses
Cliché verre
Considered a holy man in the three main branches of Western religious
tradition, Moses stands as the lawgiver and mediator between God and
humankind. His depiction here conflates episodes and images from his long
itinerary: the pillar of fire, the striking of the rock at Meribah, the
parting of the Red Sea, and the two tablets of the Law he brought down
from Mount Sinai. As with all of us, Moses was flawed: chosen by God, yet
willfully bringing down the Almighty’s “wrath and indignation” upon the
Israelites and, by extension, the rest of humanity. It is his imperfect
determination to do the will of God that makes Moses an accessible holy
man, not one whose remote loftiness shrouds him in the clouds.
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