Literature as Politics: The Exodus Narrative with Angela Roskop Erisman (Hybrid event)
The Klau Library 3101 Clifton Ave, CincinnatiThe life of Moses begins in crisis, as his mother places him in a pitch- covered basket and abandons him to an uncertain fate in the river. The abandoned infant motif is attested in literature from across the ancient world, but the book of Exodus evokes a specific text: the birth legend of Sargon the […]