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Moses in Sinai / Simone Zelith.
Van Pelt Library PS3576.E445 M67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zelitch, Simone.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses (Biblical leader)--Fiction.
- Moses.
- Moses (Biblical leader).
- Folklore in the Bible--Fiction.
- Folklore in the Bible.
- Jewish legends.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 268 ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Wash. : Black Heron Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Moses in Sinai rewrites the books of Exodus and Numbers by way of The Arabian Nights, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Cecil B. DeMille. The Hebrews of the novel are a varied mob of outlaws, magicians, aristocrats, and idolators, content with being slaves. Moses must lead them into Sinai against their will, in the hope of serving a God whose very identity he doubts. The Hebrews of this imaginative novel inhabit a world where children are born in cooking pots, meat rains from the sky, fish talk, and prophecies come true. By the novel's end, Moses is not sure which voice is God's and which is his own. The love, anger, and hope he feels transform the world around him.
- ISBN:
- 0930773594
- OCLC:
- 48772359
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