A Film as Animated Midrash
I share the view of Rabbis Goldblatt and Lerner that Prince of Egypt is a powerful midrash on the story of the Exodus. While the movie takes liberties with the biblical story, it is a faithful retelling, faithful to the transformative power of God to work with and through human beings to change the...
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Published in | Tikkun Vol. 14; no. 1; p. 10 |
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Format | Magazine Article |
Language | English |
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San Francisco
Institute of Labor and Mental Health
01.01.1999
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Summary: | I share the view of Rabbis Goldblatt and Lerner that Prince of Egypt is a powerful midrash on the story of the Exodus. While the movie takes liberties with the biblical story, it is a faithful retelling, faithful to the transformative power of God to work with and through human beings to change the world. Although I agree with Rabbi Goldblatt that some of the flaws of the biblical Moses are missing in this depiction, the DreamWorks Moses is still a very human Moses, a privileged, even bratty, young man who learns to see the world through the pain of other people and the distant memory of other values that compel him to find a new way of living. |
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Bibliography: | content type line 24 ObjectType-Review-1 SourceType-Magazines-1 |
ISSN: | 0887-9982 2164-0041 |