Rewriting Moses [[electronic resource] ] : the narrative eclipse of the text / / Brian Britt

• Autore: Britt Brian M. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 222.12092
• Soggetto topico: Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Rewriting Moses
• ISBN: 0-567-09205-4; 9786611802943; 1-281-80294-8; 0-567-38116-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782253003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender, culture, theory ; ; 14.; Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 402.