OT Notes Ex.34:29-35-transfiguration

1) Moses is a figure in the transfiguration account of course. In tradition, his lack of a burial site indicated an assumption into heaven.
2) one could work with the image of  being in the presence of god transferred a radiance to Moses. We speak of people being radiant for a variety of reasons.
3)Notice how Paul turns or twists the veil image in his rendition of it in the 2 Cor 3,4 reading.
4) The quite rare word translated as shine could be related to the word for horn in Hebrew, so that is why some pictures of Moses have him with horns, as Jerome read it that way. At this point, make up your own jokes.
5) Is there a better description of intimacy with god than speaking with a friend, face to face? What affects our intimacy with God? How does the Incarnation affect it?
6) Would not Ps. 34 make sense as a reading  (Janzen, p. 262)
7) Could we play with the veil in the temple and the veil of Moses?
8) When do you feel a spiritual veil between you and the presence of God/ when is God's will veiled? When are we veiled form ourselves? When is the veil more of a protective mask for our well-being?
9) In similar way, when do we see the light of God in our communities?
100 One could work with Moses the representative, the mediator as well. It could make a good topic to consider bridges and go-betweens in our lives.