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Rewriting Moses : the narrative eclipse of the text /
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, B...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
T & T Clark Internationa1,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
402. Gender, culture, theory ; 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567381163 0567381161 0567092054 9780567092052 9786611802943 6611802940 1281802948 9781281802941 |