Rewriting Moses : the narrative eclipse of the text - Britt, Brian M., 1964- (London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2004)
Exalted for centuries as a hero and author of the Bible, Moses is inseparable from biblical tradition itself. Moses is also an inherently ambiguous figure and a perennial focus of controversy, from ancient disputes of priestly rivalry to modern issues of class, gender and race.In Rewriting Moses, Brian Britt analyses elements of polemic and ideology in the Moses of the Bible, of film, novel, visual art and scholarship. He argues that the biblical Moses lives within writing, while the post-biblical Moses lives more often in biography. Yet later rewritings of Moses refract biblical traditions of
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Part I: CONTEMPORARY IMAGES OF MOSES; Interlude: BIBLICAL TEXT, BIBLICAL TRADITION; Part II: UNCANNY BIBLICAL TEXTS; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
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English
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Religion; Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Moses -- (Biblical leader)