Open AccessMoses Outside the Torah and the Construction of a Diaspora Identity
Author(s) -
Thomas Römer
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of hebrew scriptures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1203-1542
DOI - 10.5508/jhs.2008.v8.a15
Subject(s) - torah , diaspora , judaism , identity (music) , period (music) , identification (biology) , land of israel , literature , jewish identity , history , art , philosophy , theology , aesthetics , botany , biology
This article deals with how, in texts inside and outside the Torah, Moses became a figure of identification for the different Jewish Diasporas during the Persian Period The following themes are investigated: 1. The Shared Figure of Moses and the Pentateuch; 2. The death of Moses outside the land; 3. Moses, the magician; 4. Moses, the leprous; 5. Moses and the foreign women; 6. Moses, the warrior.