Moses in America by Melanie Jane Wright
This book explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston; and Cecil B. DeMille's film, The Ten Commandments. Wright's analysis reveals that the figure of Moses has strong currency in American culture at many levels: mainstream, white and black, intellectual and academic, religious and secular. More generally, she seeks throughout to address the question of why these three artists believed their arguments - and wright insists that they are arguments - were best advanced by the re-presentation of an ancient biblical narrative.
Wright, Melanie J.: - Melanie J. Wright was Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. She is the author of numerous articles and books including Understanding Judaism (Orchard Academic), and Religion and Film: An Introduction (I. B. Tauris). With Lucia Faltin she co-edited The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity, which is also published by Continuum.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195152265 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195152263 |
| Title | Moses in America |
| Author | Melanie Jane Wright |
| Series | Aar Cultural Criticism Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2002-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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