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Certainly possible. I updated my answer to explain why I think this is unlikely. Writing this way makes the interpretation unclear, so I would think it would have been written differently if it was written before his death. (more) |
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A: Did Moshe have free will when he struck the rock in the wilderness? Near the end of D'varim, we are told that no one knows where Moses' grave is "to this day," which to me would imply that this part was written after his death. If "to this day" refers to a specific generation of readers, than this generation is unspecified and the meaning is ambiguous (at least to mo... (more) |
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