This seminar will examine the history of the reception and the modus vitae embodied by the great figure of the Exodus story and will wrestle with attempts to construe a Moses for our time. Its goals include: a) gaining a basic familiarity with major ancient, medieval, and modern engagements with biblical tradition; b) engaging in close reading of texts that deal with interpretive issues such as truth and manifestation, esoteric meaning and exoteric form; c) evaluating modern moralistic, sentimentalist, and scholarly approaches to pre-modern revealed traditions; d) engaging with modern secular literary and artistic adaptations of the Moses figure.

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