Moses: a human life
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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Moses: a human life / Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergPublication Details
نیوهیون : Yale University Press، 2016مPhysical Description
x, 225 p.; 22 cm.Subject
Moses (Biblical leader)Bible. Old Testament -- Biography
Bible. Old Testament -- Biography
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(Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)؛ )Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references: p. 591 - 012.
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"Only Avivah Zornberg could tell the story of Moses in such a way as to situate him on the very cusp of the sacred and the human while showing how completely he participates in both. Only Zornberg has the prodigious scholarship to draw out from her sources the uniquely anguished and creative energy of Moses' life. In doing so she makes a plea for a Jewish ethics grounded in the outsider, the one who stutters and falls, while at the same time returning Moses as a fully modern prophet to the modern world."--Jacqueline Rose, author of The Last Resistance and Women in Dark Times. Identities -- The murmuring deep -- Moses veiled and unveiled -- Moses in the family : mirrors and foils -- "Moses wrote his own book