“... Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum also sees luminous transformation as a present possibility. In the text, certain righteous individuals experience transformation into light before death. Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 12:7 describes the shining faces of the Israelites who did not want the golden calf: ‘if he had been forced by fear to consent, his face shone’ (splendebat visus eius). These righteous Israelites were, like Moses, temporarily glorified by radiant countenances. After Kenaz prays about the Amorites, the text states that ‘the spirit of the Lord clothed him’ (27:9) and his body ‘was changed’ (transmutatus - 27:10). Although this is another example of Pseudo-Philo’s use of the non-recognition motif, it could also signify transfiguration into a glorious form. Similarly, the angel of the Lord ‘changed David’s appearance’ (erexit faciem David) after the killing of Goliath (61:9). Pseudo-Philo could well be modeling the stories of these righteous Israelites after that of Moses, whose radiant face rendered him unrecognizable to his people: ‘And when he came down to the sons of Israel, they saw him but did not recognize him’ (Et factum est cum descenderet ad filios Israel, videntes non cognoscebant eum - 12:1). In the case of Moses, non-recognition was due to his luminous transformation ...”