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97 noTes InTroDUCTIon 1. John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (new york: Knopf, 1974). 2. Dante, letter to Con Grande, in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. vincent B. leitch, William e. Cain, laurie Finke, Barbara Johnson, John McGowan, and Jeffrey J. Williams (new york: norton, 2001), p. 251. 3. The Koran, trans. n.J. Dawood (new york: Penguin Books, 1997). 4. Martin Buber, Moses: The Revelation and the Covenant (new york: Harper Torchbooks , 1958). 5. Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution (new york: Basic Books, 1985). 6. Walzer, quoting Davies, Territorial Dimension of Judaism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), p. 60. 7. Walzer, Exodus and Revolution, p. 149. 8. leon Uris, Exodus (Garden City, ny: Doubleday, 1958). 9. Jonathan Kirsch, Moses: A Life (new york: Ballantine Books, 1998); Joel Cohen, Moses: A Memoir (new york: Paulist Press, 2003). 10. nahum M. sarna, Exploring Exodus (new york: schocken Books, 1996). 11. robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man,” in The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. edward Connery lathem (new york: Henry Holt, 1969), p. 38. 12. Bonnie Honig, Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 3. 13. Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997). 98 / Notes to Pages 11–19 14. John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, in Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th ed., vol. A, ed. nina Baym, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, and Arnold Krupat (new york: norton, 2007), p. 157. 15. Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, p. 158. 16. Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 432. 17. Thomas Morton, New English Canaan, in Norton Anthology of American Literature, pp. 139–46. 18. Mary Antin, The Promised Land (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912). 19. Quoted in Walzer, Exodus and Revolution, p. 52. 20. Quoted in Walzer, Exodus and Revolution, p. 128. 21. Annals of America, vol. 2, 1755–1783: Resistance and Revolution (Chicago: encyclopaedia Britannica, 1976–87), p. 449. 22. Phillis Wheatley, The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, ed. Julian Mason Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 1989), p. 204. 23. The use of complex and extensive titles for ranks in Freemasonry resembles that of the Ku Klux Klan, which suggests that Klan members entered the organization after having become habituated to the practice in segregated Freemasonry. 24. Another reminder of the enlightenment origins of Freemasonry, the scottish rite Masons were initially more hospitable to black members than were the British. 25. robert s. levine, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 1997), p. 8. 26. Zora neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984), p. 147. 27. Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain, p. 93. CHAPTer 1 1. J.H. Hertz, ed., Pentateuch and Haftorahs (london: soncino Press, 1960), p. 221. 2. ephraim oratz, ed., The Pentateuch, with a translation by Samson Raphael Hirsch and excerpts from the Hirsch commentary, trans. Gertrude Hirschler (new york: Judaica Press, 1986). 3. oratz, ed., The Pentateuch, pp. 226–27. numbers preceding paragraphs refer to the paragraphs from exodus 4 that are being commented on by Hirsch (#24) and summarized by oratz (#25, #26). Brackets and italics in the original, except as otherwise noted. 4. Hertz, ed., Pentateuch and Haftorahs, p. 233. Notes to Pages 19–47 / 99 5. Kirsch, Moses: A Life, p. 340. 6. Hertz, ed., Pentateuch and Haftorahs, p. 219. 7. oratz, ed., The Pentateuch, p. 225. 8. or that he didn’t speak the language of the Israelites. 9. sarna, Exploring Exodus, p. 61. CHAPTer 2 1. Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain, p. xxi. 2. Arthur Jacobson, “The Idolatry of rules: Writing law According to Moses, with reference to other Jurisprudences,” in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (new york: routledge, 1992). 3. Jacobson, “The Idolatry of rules,” p. 125. CHAPTer 3 1. Flavius Josephus, The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, trans. William Whiston (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987). 2. Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, in The Works of Josephus, pp. 27–542. 3. Kirsch, Moses: A Life, p. 5. 4. see Claude lévi-strauss, Tristes Tropiques (new york: Pocket Books, 1977), p. 312. CHAPTer 4 1. Frances ellen Watkins Harper, “Moses: A story of the nile,” in Frances smith Foster, ed., A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances E.W. Harper Reader...