The death of Miriam is, as you say, declared in the simplest terms. no attendants, so successor, the end of a line. Period. Aaron is delivered to death with attendant and succession. Who might have been with Miriam as she died: what did she pass on, secretly, to whom. To me? To you?
Everett Fox says in the “5 Books of Moses“, you can look at these texts as the old must die out or this is what happens when “the covenant people violated the covenant.”
The death of Miriam is, as you say, declared in the simplest terms. no attendants, so successor, the end of a line. Period. Aaron is delivered to death with attendant and succession. Who might have been with Miriam as she died: what did she pass on, secretly, to whom. To me? To you?
Everett Fox says in the “5 Books of Moses“, you can look at these texts as the old must die out or this is what happens when “the covenant people violated the covenant.”