num_pages: 141
description: Full title: My head! My head! being the history of Elisha &amp; the Shunamite woman; with the history of Moses as Elisha related it, &amp; her questions put to him.  Written in 1925, My Head! My Head! was Robert Graves's first novel--a retelling of the story of Elisha &amp; the Shunamite woman. He amplifies the brief Old Testament story into a series of dramatic encounters between the wandering prophet &amp; his inquisitive, quick-witted hostess, who, by skilful questioning, prizes from Elisha the secret religious history of ancient Israel &amp; the true story of the patriarch Moses. Graves uses the extended dialog of Elisha &amp; Jochebed to elaborate his own unorthodox theory of the origins of primitive Judaism &amp; the role of Moses in the eventual triumph of the cult of Jahweh over the other desert religions of the time.
language: English
title: My Head! My Head!
titlecomplete: My Head! My Head!
characters: Joschebed, Elisha
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Haskell House Publ. Ltd