The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity...

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Jared C. Calaway

The Christian Moses

Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity

Jared C. Calaway

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McGill-Queen's University Press
21 November 2019

Nature & existence of God; The Early Church

Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism

Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century. In Exodus 33:20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12:8 says that Moses sees the form of the Lord. How does one reconcile these two opposing statements? Did Moses see God, and who gets to decide?

The Christian Moses investigates how ancient Christians from the New Testament to Augustine of Hippo resolved questions of who can see God, how one can see God, and what precisely one sees. Jared Calaway explains that the decision about whether and how Moses saw God was not a neutral exercise for an early Christian. Rather, it established the interpreter's authority to determine what was possible in divine-human relations and set the parameters for the nature of humanity. As a result, Calaway argues, interpretations of Moses' visions became a means for Jews and Christians to jockey for power, allowing them to justify particular social arrangements, relations, and identities, to assert the limits of humans in the face of divinity, and to create an Other.

Seeing early Christians with new eyes, The Christian Moses reassesses how debates on Moses' visions from the first through the fifth centuries were, in reality, debates on the boundaries of humanity.

By: Jared C. Calaway
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780773558649
ISBN 10: 0773558640
Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 21 November 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jared C. Calaway is visiting assistant professor of religion at Illinois College.

Reviews for The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity

""Jared Calaway is distinct in his push to understand the history of the reception of Exodus 33:20 and Numbers 12:8 within and across early Christian contexts and networks. A sociological lens gives his study teeth and offers broader implications than more traditional studies that remain exegetically bound to authorial meaning or traditional faith."" April DeConick, Rice University and author of The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today