Moses

The Revelation and the Covenant

Martin Buber

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781789128253
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

"To the best of my knowledge, " writes Martin Buber of this book, "what has been essayed here is the first comprehensive attempt of its kinds."Buber—steeped as he is in the literature of the Old Testament—here seeks to disengage history from saga and to convey the meaning of Sinai to the 20th century."In this book a fascinating attempt is made to depict the historical Moses. The work is rich in brilliant comment. He has profound things to say on the flight of Moses to Midian, where he met with a life resembling that of his ancestors; on the Burning Bush, where he saw fire, but no form; and Moses before Pharaoh, as the first historical instance of prophet versus king; on the contrast between Moses summoned by God, and Balaam, made use of by Him. The style is invariably clear, precise and dignified. This is a book to be read, re-read and treasured."—David Daube, Regius Professor, Oxford University

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{1} That a scholar of so much importance in his own field as Sigmund Freud could permit himself to issue so unscientific a work, based on groundless hypotheses, as his “Moses and Monotheism” (1939), is regrettable.

{2} Ernst Sellin’s interesting works, which, following in the footsteps of Goethe, support the untenable theory of Moses’ “martyrdom” with an astounding combinative skill, cannot, to my mind, be counted among these.

{3} Usener, Der Stoff des griechischen Epos. Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften, philologisch-historische Klasse СХХХVII (1897), p. 4 f. (reprinted in Usener, Kleine Schriften IV, p. 201 f.).

{4} Herzfeld, Mythos und Geschichte. Archæologische Mitteilungen aus Iran VI (1933), p. 102 ff.

{5} Jacob Grimm, Gedanken über Mythos, Epos und Geschichte. Deutsches Museum 1813, III, p. 53 (reprinted in Jacob Grimm, Kleinere Schriften IV, p. 74).

{6} B. Jacob, in a study on “The Childhood and Youth of Moses, the Messenger of God” which reached me only after the completion of this book (Essays in Honour of the Very Rev. Dr. J. H. Hertz, 1942), p. 250, declares that there can be no question of a legal adoption in the Biblical narrative. That the report, however, of the child being brought to the daughter of Pharaoh and becoming as her son (Exodus ii, 10) indicates that Moses was brought up to maturity by the Princess, cannot well be disputed. Incidentally, the passage in II Samuel vii, 14, quoted by Jacob, where God says that Solomon will become His son, is clearly a metaphor drawn fr...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• SAGA AND HISTORY
• ISRAEL IN EGYPT
• LEGEND OF THE BEGINNING
• THE BURNING BUSH
• DIVINE DEMONISM
• MOSES AND PHARAOH
• THE PASSOVER
• THE WONDER ON THE SEA
• THE SABBATH
• THE MURMURERS
• THE BATTLE
• JETHRO
• “UPON EAGLES’ WINGS” (THE EAGLE SPEECH)
• THE COVENANT
• THE WORDS ON THE TABLETS
• THE ZEALOUS GOD
• THE BULL AND THE ARK
• THE SPIRIT
• THE LAND
• THE CONTRADICTION
• BAAL
• THE END
• ADDENDUM: FROM “THE TEACHING OF THE PROPHETS”. (SEE NOTE III)
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