The story of God holding the mountain over Israel is an important sugya in the Talmud (Shabbat 88a) for Jewish explorations of commandedness and covenant.
Academic and religious responses
editApple, Raymond. "Sinai upside-down: the theological message of a Midrash." Jewish Bible Quarterly 41, no. 4 (2013): 243-250.
Elman, Yaakov. "Autonomy and Its Discontents: A Meditation on" Pahad Yitshak"." Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought 47, no. 2 (2014): 7-40.
Kaplan, Lawrence. "Israel under the Mountain: Emmanuel Levinas on Freedom and Constraint in the Revelation of the Torah." Modern Judaism 18, no. 1 (1998): 35-46.
Kavka, Martin. "Is There a Warrant for Levinas's Talmudic Readings?." The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 14, no. 1-2 (2006): 153-173.
Milgrom, J. O., and J. O. E. L. Duman. "Through the Looking Glass' at Sinai." CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM 59, no. 1 (2006): 80.
New applications
Ambalu, Shulamit. "Anan D’Sageinan B’Shleimuta: A Theology of LGBTQ Integrity, Integration and Rabbinic Leadership." European Judaism 49, no. 2 (2016): 34-45.
Comparative
Graves, Michael Wesley. "The Upraised Mountain and Israel's Election in the Qur’an and Talmud." Comparative Islamic Studies 11, no. 2 (2015).
Oliver, Isaac W. "Standing under the Mountain: Jewish and Christian Threads to a Qur’anic Construction." The Study of Islamic Origins (2021): 97.