| Description |
1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 402 |
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Gender, culture, theory ; 14 |
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 402.
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Gender, culture, theory ; 14.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Current copyright fee: GBP30.24 19\0. Uk |
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Print version record |
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Moses (Biblical leader)
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Moses (Biblical leader) fast |
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Mose Biblische Person gnd |
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Mose. swd |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Bibel Altes Testament gnd |
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Bibeln. G.T. -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Kultur
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Bijbelse motieven.
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Motieven (kunst)
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Literaire thema's.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567381163 |
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0567381161 |
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0567092054 |
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9780567092052 |
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9786611802943 |
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6611802940 |
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1281802948 |
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9781281802941 |
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