“... 6.3 Moses’ Luminosity on Sinai: LAB 12:1. In a re-writing of the traditional Sinai account, LAB states that Moses became luminous in his initial ascent of Sinai: ‘And Moses came down. And when he had been bathed with invisible light, he went down to the place where the light of the sun and the moon are; and the light of his face surpassed the splendor of the sun and the moon, and he did not even know this. And when he came down to the sons of Israel, they saw him but did not recognize him.... And afterward, when Moses realized that his face had become glorious, he made a veil for himself with which to cover his face’ (12:1). The commentators note Pseudo-Philo’s shifting of the episode of Moses’ shining face from his second ascent to his first.... Because this is such a noticeable deviation from the traditional narrative, it is certainly important to speculate on the author’s purpose in such a re-writing. It could be that Pseudo-Philo has a particular interpretive agenda: he seeks to confer upon Moses even more episodes of transcendent transformation, due to multiple occasions of access to the divine glory ...”