Moses
Date Submitted: 06/17/2002 10:51:46
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 7 pages (1791 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 7 pages (1791 words)
Moses and Campbell’s Journey of a Spiritual Hero
Long ago, in the desert of Egypt, Hebrew slaves known as Israelites escaped from the tyranny of the pharaoh. This story has a common theme that an unlikely hero leads people out of a wasteland and into a place of new life. The Israelites heroes’ name was Moses. There are several attributes that his quest shares with Joseph Campbell’s theme of the journey of the …
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…sought to control or possess the land or the people, unlike Pharaoh. In the end, the journey of the spiritual hero can finish in either one of these two paths. It is up to the individual whether or not they will succumb to temptation and!
be led down into hell and remain there forever.
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**Bibliography**
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1973.
Bible. English. New International. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986
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