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According to the Bible, Gershom (; (ラテン語:Gersam)) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name appears to mean ''a sojourner there'' (גר שם ''ger sham''), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt. Biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as ''Gershon''〔Cheyne and Black, ''Encyclopedia Biblica''〕 and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed by the Book of Chronicles as a founder of one of the principal Levite factions. Textual scholars attribute the description of ''Gershom'' to a different source text to the genealogy involving ''Gershom''.〔Richard Elliott Friedman, ''Who Wrote The Bible?''〕 The passage in Exodus concerning Moses and Zipporah reaching an inn contains four of the most ambiguous and awkward sentences in Biblical text. The text appears to suggest that some being, possibly God or an angel, attacks either Gershom or Moses, until a circumcision is carried out by Zipporah on Gershom. The later Books of Chronicles identify ''Shebuel'' as a "son" of Gershom,〔, 〕 though this is anachronistic for a literal interpretation of the bible because ''Shebuel'' is described as living in the time of King David. The Hebrew word for son can also mean a descendant; for example even remote descendants of King David are in many instances called "Sons of David" in the original Hebrew. == Priestly connections == Although certain passages of the Bible, which textual scholars ascribe to the Priestly Source, assert that it is only the Aaronim who were legitimate priests, biblical scholars believe that the priesthood was originally open to members of any tribe,〔''Jewish Encyclopedia'', ''Levite''〕 and that the restriction to Aaronim was purely an Aaronim invention, opposed by authors such as the Deuteronomist.〔Richard Elliott Friedman, ''Who Wrote The Bible?''〕 Aaronim claimed descent from Aaron – Moses' brother, and hence any immediate descendant of Moses would not be an Aaronim. The possibility that the story of Micah's Idol refers to ''immediate descendants of Moses being priests'' is taken by biblical scholars as a demonstration that the Aaronim-only restriction was originally not present in the Israelite priesthood. One of the accounts of Micah's idol refers to a priest as being ''a sojourner there'' (גר שם), which could alternatively be taken as stating that the priest was indeed Gershom (גרשם). The accounts of Micah's idol also include reference to a ''Jonathan son of Gershom'' as being a priest, and although the masoretic text seems to avoid the implication that non-Aaronim could be priests by describing this particular ''Gershom'' as a son of ''Manasseh'' (מנשה), this appears to have been distorted; the letter ''nun'' (נ) appears here in superscript, suggesting that the text originally described this ''Gershom'' as the one that was a son of ''Moses'' 〔''Jewish Encyclopedia'', ''Jonathan (son of Gershom)''〕 (משה). The priestly/prophetic aspect remains open to discussion, God explicitly chose Aaron and his direct sons for the Tabernacle and Temple services in remembrance of Aaron's servitude to Moses all along. Aaron served his brother Moses with much devotion being metaphorically called "his prophet" from the very beginning. The King and the Priest/Prophet are the two head leaders in ancient hierarchy; from this viewpoint, the belief of priesthood being open to ''anyone'' appears unsupported. The Bible recounts very strict lineage rules for the priests, aka "the descendants of Aaron", but certain deviations from the concept are mentioned – for instance, prophets such as Samuel or Elijah performed priestly-like services in special cases. As mentioned above, it is probable that Gershom's lineage would have compelled him into the priesthood, yet it appears he performed no regular priestly services of note. In other related writings it is mentioned that God ordered Moses to pass authority unto Joshua instead of his own two stubborn sons, Gershom and Eliezer. The fate of the sons of Moses is theologically controversial: they disappear from history. The books attributed to Moses give them no further mention despite the vast Levitic and Deuteronomic settlements of civic, military, priestly duties, and so on. One explanation is that because Zipporah was the daughter of a non-Jewish priest, God did not have much pleasure in the sons of Moses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gershom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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