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Rewriting Moses : the narrative eclipse of the text / Brian Britt

Author
Britt, Brian M., 1964-
Published
London ; New York : T & T Clark Internationa1, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Part I. Contemporary images of Moses -- Subverting the great man: violence and magic in Moses fiction -- Double-Moses: gender and the sacred in Moses films -- Legend and history in modern scholarly portraits of Moses -- Interlude. Biblical text, biblical tradition -- Concealment, revelation, and gender: the veil of Moses in the Bible and in Christian art -- . Part II. Uncanny biblical texts -- Moses' heavy mouth: discourse and revelation in Exodus 4.10-17 -- Torah of Moses: Deuteronomy 31-32 as a textual memorial -- Song and the blessing: poetic discourse in Deuteronomy 32-33 -- Birth, death and writing of Moses.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780567381163 (electronic bk.)
0567381161 (electronic bk.)
0567092054
9780567092052
9786611802943
6611802940
1281802948
9781281802941
0567081818
0567080870
9780567081810
9780567080875 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and indexes.
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