04267nam 2201009Ia 450 99632016300331620240516165435.01-282-76398-9978661276398410.1525/9780520946101(CKB)3370000000000084(EBL)922932(OCoLC)794663694(SSID)ssj0000439822(PQKBManifestationID)11281749(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439822(PQKBWorkID)10465208(PQKB)11715615(MiAaPQ)EBC922932(OCoLC)668193496(MdBmJHUP)muse30587(DE-B1597)520772(DE-B1597)9780520946101(Au-PeEL)EBL922932(CaPaEBR)ebr10675769(CaONFJC)MIL276398(EXLCZ)99337000000000008420090513d2010 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMoses and multiculturalism[electronic resource] /Barbara Johnson ; foreword by Barbara Rietveld1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (127 p.)Flashpoints ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26254-9 0-520-94610-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-104) and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Introduction --Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses --Chapter 2. Moses and the Law --Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus --Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper --Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian --Chapter 6. Freud's Moses --Chapter 7. Hurston's Moses --Chapter 8. The German Moses --Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie --Epilogue --Notes --IndexCountering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts-biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies-Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ;2.Multiculturalismbible stories.bible.biblical figures.biblical passages.christian stories.christian.contemporary multiculturalism.critical theory.cross cultural.discussion books.ethical debates.foundation narratives.historical perspective.literary criticism.literary theory.moses.movies.multicultural story.multiculturalism.nationalism.novels.opera.philosophical questions.philosophy.poems.religious literature.semiotics.sigmund freud.story of moses.world religions.Multiculturalism.222/.109211.41bclJohnson Barbara1947-2009.248434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996320163003316Moses and multiculturalism2456055UNISA