Moses Life

In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways in which the charismatic figure of Moses has been exploited—the “uses and abuses” of the title—to serve a variety of ideological and cultural purposes.

An investigation of how Moses was deceived and murdered by his father-in-law, Reuel

Lawgiver and liberator.

This newly revised and updated edition reveals the ancient secrets of the Moses Code and offers new research and practices to put these teachings into action.