Rabbi Ben led our study. We began by discussing Moses going up the mountain with Joshua. We noted that Joshua was not mentioned in the previous account of Moses going up in which it was Aaron and his two sons, Nadav and Abihu, who accompanied Moses. R. Ben recalled that Joshua had been one of the two who held up Moses’ hands during the battle with the Amalekites (the other being Hur) at Exodus 17:12. We discussed redaction (the putting together of different textual accounts to make one text). Dani G. discussed ethnographers he met when he lived on a Hopi reservation as a child who put together different versions of Hopi stories they learned.
