Moses : a life /
Jonathan Kirsch.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1998.
- 415 pages : map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-405) and index.
The Moses no one knows -- Born at the right time -- A Prince of Egypt -- The fugitive -- The man God befriended, the man he sought to kill -- Signs and wonders -- Exodus -- The sorcerer and the sorcerer's apprentice -- God of the mountain, God of the way -- Man of war -- "Moses is dead" -- The search for the historical Moses.
Examines biblical text, scholarship, and storytelling to present a portrait of Moses, the only human, according to the Bible, ever to have a face-to-face conversation with God.