hakolbideishamayim

It's not that simple. The Hebrew of 34:1 has God promising to write on the second tablets the same things that were on the first tablets. Moses is only required to prepare the stone so it can be engraved. Then in 34:27 when Moses is commanded to write 'these things,' the reference seems to be to what God has just told him, and not specifically to the Ten Commandments. 34:28 does not supply a subject for the writing of the ten commandments, so the verse by itself could be taken either way. The easiest way to understand 34:27-28 in its immediate context would be to say that Moses wrote both the ten commandments and the other instructions. But, unless we assume two replacement copies of the ten commandments, that is inconsistent with 34:1. Therefore although I guess there are multiple possible ways to understand the text, the two interpretations which leap to mind are (1) God wrote the second tablets and Moses wrote other instructions on something else. (2) There are two versions of this story here which differ as to who wrote the second tablets.

I have applied to the JTS PhD program in Rabbinic civilizations. It is however, the same application sharing the same slots with their Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature and Jewish history programs. Has anybody else on this site applied to the JTS PhD program? Or does anybody know what their adcom is doing now? They told us in January that 'we will get back to you at the end of February or the beginning of March with a decision,' and they invited us all repeatedly to their prospective student weekend on March 18-19, but since then they have not contacted me and the only information I have seen is that one person posted a week ago: JTS called and told her she was accepted to the MA program on the strength of her PhD application.