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it smoked from all faces (because) Yahweh descended on it in fire
These descriptions are too detailed to be interpreted as “visions” or memories
of atmospheric phenomena (which nomads were certainly used to!); nor can it
be interpreted as a naive desire to make up some form of appearance aimed at
amazing the reader: religious literature has done much more in this sense.
Here we are reading about extraordinary events witnessed by an entire
group of people. This was a specific phenomenon, absolutely new to the
ordinary experience of those people, consisting of images, sounds and
situations that, if for a moment we get rid of prejudices and freely follow the
current thinking and knowledge - are caused by the presence of “something”
that manifested very powerfully.
Indeed, the term kevód does identify this: what is heavy and strong. Today,
kavéd (adjective) could be an airplane, a tank, a ship, an elephant...perhaps
just the travelling machines used by the anunnaki/elohìms?!
“Glorious” assumptions, and conclusions
One of the most important Jewish scholars, Rashi of Troyes (tenth century
AD). Commenting on the book of Genesis, he depicted a very realistic figure
of the “Throne of Glory of Yahweh” when he said that in origin...
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