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MOSES : A Life
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MOSES : A Life Hardcover - 1998

by Kirsch, Jonathan

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New York, New York, U.S.A. : Ballantine Books, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. 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. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-rotected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF49
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  • Title MOSES : A Life
  • Author Kirsch, Jonathan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 415
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 025119
  • ISBN 9780345412690 / 0345412699
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.53 x 1.44 in (24.33 x 16.59 x 3.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Moses
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98025299
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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The Bible is remarkably blunt and plainspoken in telling the life story of Moses.

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