Moses in Sinai (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780930773595)

Moses in the Sinai rewrites the books of Exodus and Numbers by way of The Arabian Nights, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Cecil B. DeMille. It makes generous use of myth and history, ancient and contemporary. The Hebrews of the novel are a varied mob of outlaws, magicians, sorcerers, aristocrats, and idolators, all content with being slaves. Moses must lead them into the Sinai against their will in the hope of serving a God whose very identity he doubts. The Hebrews of this historical and imaginative novel inhabit a world where children are born in cooking pots, meat rains from the sky, fish talk, and prophecies come true. It is a world where human emotion can take miraculous forms. Moses in the Sinai is full of such miracles.

Author: Simone Zelitch
ISBN-10: 0930773594
ISBN-13: 9780930773595
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.26w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/05/2001 pg. 41
Booklist 12/01/2001 pg. 632
Library Journal 02/01/2002 pg. 82
Multicultural Review 09/01/2002 pg. 84