TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Barbara
AU  - Rietveld,Barbara
TI  - Moses and Multiculturalism
T2  - FlashPoints
SN  - 9780520946101
AV  - BS580.M6 J64 2010 
U1  - 222.1092222/.1092 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Moses
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Multiculturalisme
KW  - multiculturalism
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Semiotics & Theory
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic resource
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Biblical Moses; 2. Moses and the Law; 3. Flavius Josephus; 4. Frances E.W. Harper; 5. Moses, the Egyptian; 6. Freud's Moses; 7. Hurston's Moses; 8. The German Moses; 9. Moses, the Movie; Epilogue; Notes; Index
N2  - Countering 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
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