Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar

No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book.
 
Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses's vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.

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• The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
• The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus
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• The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
• Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (Jewish Lives)
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• The Kveller Haggadah: A Seder for Curious Kids (and their Grownups)
• The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)