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The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity - Couverture souple

Livre 6 sur 6: Studies in Christianity and Judaism

Calaway, Jaeda Charlotte

 
9780773558649: The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0773558640 ISBN 13 : 9780773558649
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century. In Exodus 33:20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12:8 says that Moses sees the form of the Lord. How does one reconcile these two opposing statements? Did Moses see God, and who gets to decide? The Christian Moses investigates how ancient Christians from the New Testament to Augustine of Hippo resolved questions of who can see God, how one can see God, and what precisely one sees. Jaeda Calaway explains that the decision about whether and how Moses saw God was not a neutral exercise for an early Christian. Rather, it established the interpreter's authority to determine what was possible in divine-human relations and set the parameters for the nature of humanity. As a result, Calaway argues, interpretations of Moses' visions became a means for Jews and Christians to jockey for power, allowing them to justify particular social arrangements, relations, and identities, to assert the limits of humans in the face of divinity, and to create an Other. Seeing early Christians with new eyes, The Christian Moses reassesses how debates on Moses' visions from the first through the fifth centuries were, in reality, debates on the boundaries of humanity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jaeda Charlotte Calaway is a faculty librarian at Illinois College and the author of The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773558640
ISBN 13 
9780773558649
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
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