Hebrew Scholar says Moses was “Tripping” on Mt. Sinai

Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Science

In an article published this week in the philsophy journal Time and Mind, Benny Shannon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advances the theory that the biblical prophet Moses was high on hallucinatory drugs when he heard God speaking to him on Mt. Sinai:
“And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking.” Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. The “perceiving of [...]