Dr. Yosefa Raz is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. She holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which examines the way poets and scholars since the mid-1700s have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy.
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In his famous essay on Moses, Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha’am 1856–1927), an influential Zionist thinker, recasts the revelation at the burning bush as Moses encountering his internal voice. His heroic Moses is shadowed by other, more melancholic figures, such as Jeremiah, and even Muhammad, as imagined by Thomas Carlyle. Rather than a figure of strength and power, Ahad Ha’am’s Moses comes to express the anxieties and ambivalences of early Zionism.
In his famous essay on Moses, Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha’am 1856–1927), an influential Zionist thinker, recasts the revelation at the burning bush as Moses encountering his internal voice. His heroic Moses is shadowed by other, more melancholic figures, such as Jeremiah, and even Muhammad, as imagined by Thomas Carlyle. Rather than a figure of strength and power, Ahad Ha’am’s Moses comes to express the anxieties and ambivalences of early Zionism.
