saw that they were not written upon, and, agitated, he smashed them.” See H.

Jacobson, A
commentary on Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum with Latin Text and
English
Translation, Volume One (Leiden-New York-Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996), p. 490. Jacobson
discusses various parallels, which mention the fact that the result of the fading
away of
the letters or their flying back to heaven was that the tablets became too heavy
for Moses