The Moses Legacy

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When fragments of stone with ancient writings are found in Sinai, the Egyptians call in expert, Daniel Klein. But when Daniel's decipherment of the ancient text threatens to reveal the origins of the Bible, others are determined to prevent the truth from seeing the light of day.

Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish people. It is this character that has enabled the Jewish people to survive despite persecution and virulent anti-Semitism, and Freud proudly identifies himself with it. In his analysis of Freud's often misunderstood last work, Bernstein goes on to shows how Freud expands and deepens our understanding of a religious tradition by revealing its unconscious dynamics.

The father fled East Prussia to escape the 1880s pogroms and, as a penniless immigrant boy, hawked newspapers on the streets of Chicago. The son, who lives on Philadelphia's Main Line and on a palatial California estate, is a multibillionaire and America's most generous living philanthropist. This is the epic saga of how Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes.

When fragments of stone covered in a mysterious ancient script are found in Egypt, archaeologist Gabrielle Gusack persuades her mentor, antiquities chief Akil Mansoor, to call in Daniel Klein, an expert in Semitic Languages. Despite Mansoor's scepticism, Daniel and Gaby think the stones date back to the Biblical period. But others are determined to prevent the facts from seeing the light of day. Framed for murder and forced to go on the run, Daniel and archaeologist Gabrielle Gusack are pursued across the Middle East by a ruthless killer who works for a shadowy figure in Washington DC. As they try to stay one step ahead of their hunter, they realize that the secret of the stones is only the beginning... and the truth could cost millions of lives. Perfect for fans of Dan Brown.

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book. Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses's vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.

In Once A God, Allen E. Goldenthal uses his internationally acclaimed story-telling abilities to provide the biographical sketch of the most fascinating figure from the Bible. A man that has shaped our world and yet, the Bible reveals practically nothing about his own life. From his youthful days as a Prince in the household of the Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian Royal family, the author uses the wealth of historical and biblical manuscripts, the bounty of geo-historiographical records, the latest evidence from volcanologists and recent findings from scientific research and Egyptian archaeology to knit together the most fascinating and compelling profile of a man that was forced to wrestle with his own humanity and ultimately changed the world. Using the strikingly contrasting events of his own epic life, the reader watches as Moses matures into the epic hero that we glimpse in the Bible but never fully comprehend how he came to choose a path that so few men would tread. Charged with the felonious crime of murder, he has no other choice but to embrace the mantle that his now dead grandfather had left to him through a series of riddles concealed within a hidden archive protected by the High Priestess of Isis in the land of Goshen. Allen Goldenthal presents the reader with the most detailed profile of a man that we all know by name but know so very little about. We walk in his shoes as he becomes a rebel willing to defy his own family in search of a God that very few had encountered. As he deciphers his grandfather's mysterious clues, it takes him into the far off lands of Kush and Midian, where we find ourselves standing alongside on that very mountain where Moses comes face to face with Almighty God. From Prince, to mortal man, to rebel leader, this is the story of how one man became an inspiration to every generation, past, present and future. Finally we can appreciate the true miracle of the Exodus.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

TBA