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Title	:	Moses, Man of the Mountain
Author	:	Zora Neale Hurston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	by Harpperen (first published January 1st 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. Religion

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In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses' life from the day he Is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confrontations with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humor, passion, and psychological insight--the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture.

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Original Title:	Moses, Man of the Mountain
ISBN:	0060919949 (ISBN13: 9780060919948)
Edition Language:	English

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My favorite Hurston book. It's a wonderful narrative, and she is brilliant in the way she brings the Exodus story to characters in 20th century Harlem. Hurston allows you to see her criticism of relagion and of the shorcomings and frailties of Afrcian American people of that era, but does it in a way that is more endearing than demeaning. I love this book, and find myself going back to it periodically, even though I've read it for three decades.

This book was so good, and so relevant to today's world that I wept that I was finished. This is a book of fiction (as is the Bible) It was never meant to be an actual testimony of what transpired 2 millenia ago. And one needs to ne mindful Hurston was initiated into no less than 5 different hoodoo sects... She's not a Christian

This book is wonderful. As always, Hurston works magic with words. Her Moses is a lot more interesting than any Moses in my previous reading, but that is not surprising. The only surprising thing is that I never read this before. The author is pretty hard on human failings, so it is not all fun and games, but I found it very compelling.

My favorite Zora Neale Hurston book so far. The Moses story told from a Harlem Renaissance 1939 Africa American perspective. Very interesting insights. I would have liked it better if it had been more faithful to the Biblical Moses account, but very good none the less.

More of a 3.5I really enjoyed this spin on the story of Moses!

This felt like a longer read than Zora's previous novels, but it was easier too. It's the story of Moses using elements from the Exodus and black folklore. I really liked the mix and it fit well. I'm actually reading the King James version of the Exodus at night as I read this book, feels like a good companion. I'll note that there are 40 chapters in this book and 40 chapters in Exodus, all intentional I think.I'm kind of interested to find out the history of this book. Leaves me to wonder how

The story of the Hebrews, slaves in Egypt, told through the lens of Africans, slaves in America.Book Review: Moses, Man of the Mountain shows the strengths of wily Zora Neale Hurston, godmother to writers such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Although a product of the Harlem Renaissance, as ever she refuses to be politically correct. Here she tells the story of Moses and the Exodus her way, like no other, retelling the story with black slaves from the American South somehow replacing the