Moses in America

The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative (livre en anglais)

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de Melanie Jane Wright

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

religion, Bible, Cecil B. DeMille

Année d'édition

2002

Editeur

Oxford University Press

Collection

AAR Religion, Culture, and History

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Relié • 184 pages
14 x 20,5 cm

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-19-515226-3
978-0-19-515226-5

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Melanie Jane Wright, Academic Director, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

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