Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

Reviewed by Rabbi Ben Ehrenfeld Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s volume Moses: A Human Life,1 is both a continuation of her corpus of work as a biblical commentator and a part of the Jewish Lives biography series published by Yale University. In context of Zornberg’s wider collection of work, Moses: A Human Life is unique not so much in the content itself as in its presentation and voice. As a part of the Jewish Lives series, this book stands apart most notably in the claim that anyone could write a biography of Moses the way one might write a biography of Freud, Scholem, Spielberg, or