Moses in America : the cultural uses of biblical narrative
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Moses in America : the cultural uses of biblical narrative
（American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series）
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-166) and index
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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.
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