If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

The other account is found in Deuteronomy 10: 6, where Moses is reported as saying that Aaron died at Moserah and was buried there.

At the battle with Amalek, he is chosen with Hur to support the hand of Moses that held the " rod of God " ( Exodus 17: 9 ).

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

This is the reason that Alfred divided his code into precisely 120 chapters: 120 was the age at which Moses died and, in the number-symbolism of early medieval biblical exegetes, 120 stood for law.

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

The first one is Amram the father of Moses and the second one is Joachim the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron, is a revered patriarch of Islam.

In some legends, Abaddon is identified as a realm where the " damned " lie in fire and snow, one of the places in " Hell " that Moses visited.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

* Joshua's vision of the " commander of Yahweh's army " ( 5: 13 – 15 ) is reminiscent of the divine revelation to Moses in the burning bush ( Ex.

* Joshua successfully intercedes on behalf of the Israelites when Yahweh is angry for their failure to fully observe the " ban " ( herem ), just as Moses frequently persuaded God not to punish the people ( Ex.

The " servant of Yahweh " can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future.

The people murmur against God and are punished by fire ; Moses complains of the stubbornness of the Israelites and is ordered to choose seventy elders to assist him in the government of the people.

Miriam and Aaron insult Moses at Hazeroth, which angers God ; Miriam is punished with leprosy and is shut out of camp for seven days, at the end of which the Israelites proceed to the desert of Paran.

Moses is ordered to make plates to cover the altar with the two hundred fifty censers left after the destruction of Korah's band.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, also called The Ten Commandments, in which he is portrayed by Charlton Heston.

Moses appears as the central character in the 1998 DreamWorks Pictures animated movie, The Prince of Egypt.

The tomb, of which the central feature is Michelangelo's statue of Moses, was never finished to Michelangelo's satisfaction.

Orthodox Judaism's central belief is that Torah, including the Oral Law, was given directly from God to Moses and applies in all times and places.

The central tier of the walls has two cycles of paintings, which complement each other, The Life of Moses and The Life of Christ.

A central pillar of the Bible's historical authority was the tradition that it had been composed by the principal actors or eyewitnesses to the events described – the Pentateuch was the work of Moses, Joshua was by Joshua, and so on.

Similarly, although an occupation with national destiny has been central to the Jewish faith ( see Zionism ) many scholars ( including Moses Mendelssohn ) stated that conscience as a personal revelation of scriptural truth was an important adjunct to the Talmudic tradition.

For Paul, in Romans chapter 2, the " natural law " is contrasted with the Mosaic Law posited on Mount Sinai in that the Jewish Nation possessed the latter while the Gentile Nations lacked the Law of Moses but possessed the former in virtue of knowing ( some of its central commandments ) and obeying it ( partially ) " by nature.

In the center of a traffic circle that he planned as a terminus for the Wantagh State Parkway, Moses ordered the construction of an Italianate-style water tower to serve as a central feature of the park.

Friedman states that the smashing of the Ten Commandments by Moses when he beheld the worship of the golden calf, is really an attempt to cast into doubt the validity of Judah's central shrine, the Ark of the Covenant.

The 2 mi ( 3. 2 km ) long Jones Beach Boardwalk runs along the central section of the 10 mi ( 16. 1 km ) Jones Beach State Park, created during the administration of Robert Moses and opened in 1929.

Nevertheless, communal unity and equality are central tenets of the Latter Day Saint doctrine of Zion as described in Moses 7: 18, " And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness ; and there was no poor among them.

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, ( 1522 – 1570 ) (), was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Israel.

Musgrave has written more than a dozen operas and other music theatre works, many taking a historical figure as their central character, among them Mary Queen of Scots ( 1977 ), Harriet Tubman ( Harriet, the Woman called Moses, 1984 ), Simón Bolívar ( 1993 ) and Pontalba ( 2003 ).

In the years since its publication, and especially since Moses's death in 1981, it has been central to discussion of Moses and the history of 20th-century New York.

In the book he argues that the experiences of the Hyksos in Egypt became a central foundation of myths in Canaanite culture, leading to the story of Moses.

Torrey opposed the route Moses wanted for the Northern State Parkway along Long Island's central glacial moraine.

Another scholar of the time interested in grimoires, the antiquarian bookseller Johann Scheible, first published the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, two influential magical texts that claimed to have been written by the ancient Jewish figure Moses.

Joshua ( Yĕhôshúa ‘;, Yūshaʿ ibn Nūn ), is a figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel ( Num 13-14 ) and in few passages as Moses ' assistant.

The figure of Osarseph in Hellenistic historiography is a renegade Egyptian priest who leads an army of lepers against the pharaoh and is finally expelled from Egypt, changing his name to Moses.

While the general narrative of the Exodus and the conquest of the Promised Land may be remotely rooted in historical events, the figure of Moses as a leader of the Israelites in these events cannot be substantiated.

Artapanus of Alexandria explicitly identified Moses not only with Thoth / Hermes, but also with the Greek figure Musaeus ( whom he calls " the teacher of Orpheus "), and ascribed to him the division of Egypt into 36 districts, each with its own liturgy.

For Christians, Moses — mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure — is often a symbol of God's law, as reinforced and expounded on in the teachings of Jesus.

For instance, it can be used so as to say that no person or historical figure fits the set of descriptions attributed to the person that goes by the name of " Moses ".

* Moses Mendelssohn ( 1729 – 1786 ), philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany

The " rush " or " reed " basket in which the Biblical figure Moses was abandoned may have been made from papyrus.

Paralleling God-as-conjuror, hoodoo practitioners often understand the biblical figure Moses in similar terms.

" Ira Steven Behr compares Sisko to the Biblical figure, Moses, who fails to reach the Promised Land, and to the character of Ethan Edwards from the 1956 Western film, The Searchers, who neglects to return to his family once his task is complete.

* Robert Parris Moses, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and later founder of the Algebra Project, lived at 108-63 Ditmars Boulevard in Corona

Moses Zeh Blah ( born 18 April 1947 ) is a Liberian political figure.

These two themes are personified by Rumi in the Biblical and Quranic figure of the Prophet Moses.

Moses was a controversial figure, both for his single-minded zeal and for its impact on New York City.

Over the highest point of the upper arch is a figure of Jesus ; to the left and right at a lower level are figures of Solomon and Alfred the Great ; that of Moses is at the northern front of the building.

Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the Biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time.

John Brown's younger brother, Moses Brown, was a notable abolitionist, and his brother-in-law and business partner, Jabez Bowen was a notable Rhode Island political figure.

George Higgins Moses ( February 9, 1869December 20, 1944 ) was a U. S. diplomat and political figure.

He also claimed to be a reincarnation of the prophet Moses, and demanded the respect appropriate for such a figure.

In the Gospel of John Jesus is not just a messianic figure, nor a prophet like Moses, but the key emphasis is on his dual role as Son of God and Son of man.