4 passagesc. 10th–11th century CEHebrew / AramaicPublic Domain
Individual passages from Sword of Moses (Harba de-Moshe), indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Harba de-Moshe, the Sword of Moses, does not imagine a blade of iron in Moses's hand. It imagines a chain of names. Moses Gaster first published the work in 1896 from a manuscript ...
The Sword of Moses begins with distance. God stands at the summit. Moses receives what no ordinary person can receive. Metatron, the great angel of the divine presence, carries the...
The center of the Sword is a number: seventy. Harba de-Moshe builds its power around a Great Name made of seventy names. In Jewish memory, seventy is never just arithmetic. There a...
The most practical-looking passages in the Sword are also the easiest to misread. Gaster's 1896 edition preserves adjurations connected with illness, danger, childbirth, court trou...
