Moses: A Life - Hardcover

Kirsch, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345412699 ISBN 13: 9780345412690

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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Book by Kirsch Jonathan

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An intriguing portrait of one of the most dynamic figures of the Old Testament explores Moses's diverse roles as shepherd, warrior, spiritual leader, miracle worker, and lawgiver, in a masterful study by the author of The Harlot by the Side of the Road. 50,000 first printing.

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liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in this brilliant, stunningly original volume, Moses was also an enigmatic and mysterious figure--at once a good shepherd and a ruthless warrior, a spiritual leader and a magician, a lawgiver who broke his own laws, God's chosen friend and hounded victim. Now, in Moses: A Life, Kirsch accomplishes the wondrous feat of revealing the real Moses, a strikingly modern figure who steps out from behind the facade of Sunday school lessons and movie matinees.

Drawing on the biblical text and a treasury of both scholarship and storytelling, Kirsch examines all that is known and all that has been imagined of Moses. In these vivid pages, we see the marvels and mysteries of Moses's life in a new light--his rescue in infancy and adoption by an Egyptian princess; his reluctant assumption of the role of liberator; hi

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345412699
• ISBN 13: 9780345412690
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 415