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Moses 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) , land of israel , persian , history , jewish identity , identification (biology) , literature , art , ancient history , theology , philosophy , aesthetics , archaeology , biology , botany

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.

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