Moses: the biblical character, from Exodus to Sigmund Freud

Authors

  • Regina Zilberman Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.2.2.94-104

Keywords:

Moses, Myth, Freud

Abstract

This article analyzes the figure of Moses that is not limited to actions performed in the books of the Pentateuch, although this is profoundly marked by his presence, since the stars until the end and identifies itself as its author. Already in the Middle Ages it is object of visual representation, such as the Moses of Master Mateo in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, appearing later in different pictorial images and reaching its climax with Michelangelo, 1515 which, since then, figure as the most prestigious of the Biblical character translation. The 20th century, in turn, added two more roles to the figure of Moses: the mythical and the historical.

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Author Biography

Regina Zilberman, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora em Romanistica pela Universitat Heidelberg, Alemanha, professora colaboradora do Instituto de Letras, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, professora-‑pesquisadora na Faculdade Porto-­Alegrense de Educação, Ciências e Letras e Bolsista de Produtividade de Pesquisa A1, do CNPq.

References

FREUD, Sigmund. Moïse et le monothéisme. Trad. de Anne Berman. Paris: Gallimard, 1980.

RANK, Otto. El mito del nacimiento del heroe. Trad. de Eduardo A. Loedel. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1961.

Published

2008-03-30

How to Cite

Zilberman, R. (2008). Moses: the biblical character, from Exodus to Sigmund Freud. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 2(2), 94–104. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.2.2.94-104