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MOSES : A LIFE
by KIRSCH, JONATHAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0345412699
- ISBN 13
- 9780345412690
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About This Item
NY: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1998. first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line. HARDCOVER. 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S27.50) DUST JACKET ..DJ HAS BEEN EFFECTED BY HEAT...Plastic bit rumpled, not torn. It is tranlucent and shows the photo decorated cover thru the red & Black dj titles..Book itself has not titles, etc on covers. Very unusual production values. ; Michaelangelo MOSES cover art. DJ has photo of author & biog on inner flap.. ; Map; 415pg thick pages; 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; his struggles to wrest his people from the pharaoh's dominion; his desperate vigil on Mount Sinai. Here too is the darker, more ominous Moses--the sorcerer, the husband of a pagan woman, the military commander who cold-bloodedly ordered the slaying of innocent people; the beloved of God whom God sought twice to murder. .
Synopsis
Lawgiver and 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; his struggles to wrest his people from the pharaoh's dominion; his desperate vigil on Mount Sinai. Here too is the darker, more ominous Moses--the sorcerer, the husband of a pagan woman, the military commander who cold-bloodedly ordered the slaying of innocent people; the beloved of God whom God sought twice to murder.Jonathan Kirsch brings both prodigious knowledge and a keen imagination to one of the most compelling stories of the Bible, and the results are fascinating. A figure of mystery, passion, and contradiction, Moses emerges from this book very much a hero for our time.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Wonderful Books by Mail
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124203
- Title
- MOSES : A LIFE
- Author
- KIRSCH, JONATHAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line
- ISBN 10
- 0345412699
- ISBN 13
- 9780345412690
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Religion, Judaism MOSES, Biography, Christian History, Israel
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