Moses and the angel of death
by Rella Kushelevsky
Moses' struggle for life on the threshold of the Promised Land and his enigmatic death have captured the imagination of the Jewish people. From the early midrashic texts of the second century onwards, the dramatic and compelling story of Moses' death steadily evolved, manifesting itself in numerous versions. This panoramic view of the resultant thematic series uncovers a consistent dialectic perception of Moses and his death, embodied in a rather fixed narrative pattern, rich in folkloric motifs.
Against the constant features of this series, individual differences among the versions reflect a literary-cultural process of change and development.
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Moses and the angel of death
1995, P. Lang, Peter Lang Publishing, Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
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0820421472 9780820421476
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and indexes.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Bar-Ilan University, 1990.
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