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Moses: A Life - Hardcover

Kirsch, Jonathan

 
9780345412690: Moses: A Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0345412699 ISBN 13: 9780345412690
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Kirsch, a book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of the critically acclaimed The Harlot by the Side of the Road, writes and lectures widely on biblical, literary, and legal topics. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, and a former correspondent for Newsweek, he lives in Los Angeles.

Aus dem Klappentext

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
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345412699
ISBN 13 
9780345412690
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
415
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

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