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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britt, Brian M., 1964-

Series:

Gender, culture, theory ; 14.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 402.

Gender, culture, theory ; 14

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 402

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Moses (Biblical leader).

Moses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611802943

9780567092052

0567092054

9781281802941

1281802948

9780567381163

0567381161

OCLC:

276852835