Moses: The Man Who Argued with God

Moses is often treated as a marble statue: heroic, remote, inevitable. This book restores his pulse. With literary clarity and Protestant theological rigor, D. Michael Gross follows Moses from the cry in the river to the silence of Midian, from the fire that doesn't burn out to the exhausting mercy of leading people who would rather go back to Egypt.Gross's thesis is simple and bracing: God forges...