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Excavating Exodus : biblical typology and racial solidarity in African American literature

J. Laurence Cohen (Author)
"Excavating Exodus examines adaptations of Moses' story in novels, newspapers, and speeches from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. By asking how Moses became a touchstone for notions of race loyalty, Excavating Exodus traces how Black intellectuals reinvented the Mosaic model of charismatic male leadership" -- Provided by publisher

eBook, English, 2021
Clemson University Press, [Clemson], 2021