Rewriting Moses (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement)

Exalted for centuries as a hero and author of the Bible, Moses is inseparable from biblical tradition itself. Yet he is also an inherently ambiguous figure and a perennial focus of controversy, from ancient disputes over leadership and identity to modern issues of class, gender, and race. In Rewriting Moses, Brian Britt analyzes elements of polemic and ideology in the Moses of the Bible, of film, novel, visual art, and scholarship. He argues that the biblical Moses lives within writing, while the post-biblical Moses lives more often in biography. Yet later rewritings of Moses refract biblical traditions of writing in surprising ways. Rewriting Moses provides an original account of the Freudian insight that traditions preserve what they repress.Brian Britt is the author of 'Rewriting Moses (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement)' with ISBN 9780567081810 and ISBN 0567081818.