Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfuz, in which an Egyptian family mirrors the spiritual history of humankind as a feudal lord disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another son to the ultimate test.
The Lawgiver by Herman Wouk - a tale told through correspondence, articles, and text messages traces the efforts of a group of movie makers, including a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father's strict upbringing, to create a movie about the life of Moses.
What about you? Can you add to this list? Please comment to this post with any ideas!
"Exodus" is the modern name given to a powerful, but incomplete Old English poem of 590 lines, from about the year 800, by an unknown author, and is a re-telling of the Israelites escape from Egypt, as an heroic epic.
ReplyDeleteI've found an excerpt in The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation / Delanty and Matto, eds. It includes the Old English text side-by-side with a modern translation by David Curzon: "Watch now! You, the chosen nation, with your own eyes will witness a quick miracle: how I myself by the Strong Right Hand have struck with a living stick the deep ocean."
DeleteExcellent work! - will need to see. Side-by-sides: very revealing, when available. BTW, more fiction for list: "Moses, The Prince of Egypt", Dorothy Clarke Wilson (1949 - partial basis for DeMille's "The Ten Commandments"
DeleteWow! I was not aware of that. Going to see if we have that somewhere in a collected volume...
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