Moses on Drugs?

O' Brother
Now I've heard everything.

Moses and the Israelites were on drugs, says Benny Shanon, an Israeli professor of cognitive philosophy.

Writing in the British Journal Time and Mind, he claims Moses was probably on psychedelic drugs when he received the Ten Commandments from God.

The assertions give a whole new meaning to Moses being "high" on Mount Sinai.

According to Shanon, a professor at Hebrew University, two naturally existing plants in the Sinai Peninsula have the same psychoactive components as ones found in the Amazon jungle and are well-known for their mind-altering capabilities. The drugs are usually combined in a drink called ayahuasca.

This is scholarship? Some guy get high on some plant that he says was around in the time of Moses and he figures " That's why Moses saw the burning bush"

Explaining God away... and this professor is going to teach this stuff.