Angelic Escapades

Moses and the Angels. By ILEENE SMITH SOBEL (paintings by Mark Podwal). New York: Delacorte Press. 1999.

Moses and the Angels is a unique, yet ultimately unsatisfying, children's book. The author splices fantasmagorical stories of angels from midrashim and legends into the Torah's version of Moses, making the Torah's account, with its burning bushes, parting seas, and divine voices, seem downright tame. One wonders what to make of the irruption of angels into a children's book about Moses. I imagine that the author, as Elie Wiesel suggests inhis introduction, seeks to ...

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