Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text

by Brian Britt

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567092054
• ISBN13: 9780567092052
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"