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Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative
Melanie Jane Wright
Abstract
This book is about the representation of Moses and the Exodus narrative in three North American texts: Moses in Red by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, Man of the Mountain (1926), by Zora Neale Hurston (1939), and Cecil B. DeMille's film, The Ten Commandments (1956). It does not seek to judge the merits of these works, but rather to ask why and how they recast the biblical narrative as they did, and how their images of Moses were received. The study holds in tension the roles of producers and consumers, valuing both as interpreters and creators of the Moses story.
Keywords: American religion, Biblical interpretation, DeMille, Exodus, film, Hurston, popular culture, Steffens, Ten Commandments
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195152265 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0195152263.001.0001 |
