Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.

Moses. --- Moses (Biblical leader). --- Multiculturalism. --- Multiculturalism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Moses --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Government policy --- Moïse --- Moiseĭ --- Moisés --- Mosè --- Mosheh --- Mosheh, --- Mosis --- Moyshe, --- Mózes --- Mūsá --- Nabī Mūsá --- משה --- משה, --- 221-05 --- 221-05 Personen in het Oude Testament --- Personen in het Oude Testament --- bible stories. --- bible. --- biblical figures. --- biblical passages. --- christian stories. --- christian. --- contemporary multiculturalism. --- critical theory. --- cross cultural. --- discussion books. --- ethical debates. --- foundation narratives. --- historical perspective. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- moses. --- movies. --- multicultural story. --- multiculturalism. --- nationalism. --- novels. --- opera. --- philosophical questions. --- philosophy. --- poems. --- religious literature. --- semiotics. --- sigmund freud. --- story of moses. --- world religions.