Finn Damgaard, Recasting Moses: The Memory of Moses in Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in Ancient Judaism and 4th-Century Christianity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 13. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. 276. ISBN: 978-3-631-63142-3. Hardcover. €54.95 / $66.95.

Gavin Mcdowell (1)

1 IRHT - Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes

Recasting Moses, a slightly revised version of author Finn Damgaard's doctoral thesis, explores how the figure of Moses was shaped in Jewish and Christian discourse. It is not an exhaustive study of Moses traditions but rather an examination of the particular ways Moses is used in biography and autobiography. Damgaard focuses on three types of texts: biographies of Moses, biographies of someone else who is compared to Moses, and autobiographies in which the author explicitly or (more often) implicitly compares himself to Moses. Therefore, the study is less concerned with the Mosaic traditions and their development than the figure of Moses as a tool for understanding the lives of others.

Domaines: Religions

Gavin Mcdowell. Finn Damgaard, Recasting Moses: The Memory of Moses in Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in Ancient Judaism and 4th-Century Christianity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 13. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. 276. ISBN: 978-3-631-63142-3. Hardcover. €54.95 / $66.95.. 2014. ⟨hal-03927023⟩