Refiguring Exodus

Abstract

Part III travels carte blanche across disciplines, centuries, genres, and languages, often stressing the remaindering of sacred thoughts in secular and profaned images of art. Chapter 9 tracks, first, the mobility of selected terms, the typology of figures and motifs, and the associative rationales or syncretistic legends that allowed the Red Sea Passage to come to stand for The Event or The Exodus. And second, the explanatory ground for the significant alteration around 1800 in the terms of bohème. The material shows how the syncretistic typology became a repetitive and divisive stereotyping of divided peoples.