The Many Faces of Moses

No single figure so dominates the pages of the Hebrew Bible as Moses. This is especially true of Deuteronomy, the final book of the Pentateuch. There Moses is not only the central figure, he is virtually the only figure. Indeed the only ones who speak in the book are Moses and God. Scholars differ as to what role Moses actually played in Israel’s origins. Their views vary along a wide spectrum—from those who see the biblical record as essentially accurate in ascribing to Moses a leading and formative place in Israel’s history to Martin Noth’s famous conclusion that Moses […]