service at the altar (Exod 24:4–8), associate him with distinctly priestly functions (cf. C. Hauret, “Moïse était-il prêtre?” Bib 40 [1959] 509–21). Philo does not hesitate to describe Moses as a high priest (e.g., The Life of Moses 2.66–186; Who is the Heir? 182; On Rewards and Punishments 53, 56). In the hellenistic-Jewish tradition, Moses is the supreme exemplar of perfection in the sense of immediacy and access to God. If such views were the common property of men and women who had been nourished