115. How Moses Shaped America
By Bruce Feiler TIME Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

The Ten Commandments teach that freedom depends on law.

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"We are in the presence of a lot of Moseses," Barack Obama said on March 4, 2007, three weeks after announcing his candidacy for President. He was speaking in Selma, Ala., surrounded by civil rights pioneers. Obama cast his run for the White House as a fulfillment of the Moses tradition of leading people out of bondage into freedom. "I thank the Moses generation, but we've got to remember that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was ... he didn't cross over the river to see the promised land."
Eight months into his presidency, Obama might want to give Moses a second look. On issues from health care to Afghanistan, the President faces doubts and rebellions, from an entrenched pharaonic establishment on one hand and restless, stiff-necked followers on the other. There's good reason, then, for Obama to heed the leadership lessons of history's greatest leader. Like presidential predecessors from Washington to Reagan, Obama can use the Moses story to help guide Americans in troubled times. From the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, the Civil War to the civil rights movement, Americans have turned to Moses in periods of crisis because his narrative offers a road map of peril and promise.

A. 어휘
in the presence of ...의 面前(면전)에. candidacy for President 대통령 입후보.
civil rights 民權(민권). cast his run 출마하다.
fulfillment 실행, 수행, 성취. bondage 속박, 노예의 처지.
Joshua 여호수아( 모세의 뒤를 이은 이스라엘의 지도자).
rebellion 반란. entrench 참호로 둘러싸다. entrenched 견고한, 확립된.
pharaonic 파라오 같은, 전제군주의. establishment 기성의 체제(기구 , 제도).
an entrenched pharaonic establishment 전제군주처럼 견고한 기성체제.
restless 불안한, 불안정한. stiff-necked 완고한.
heed 마음에 새기다, 주의하다. predecessor 전임자, 선배.
the Pilgrims 영국에서 건너가 미국 최초의 이민. pilgrim 참배자, 순례자.
the Founding Fathers 미국 건국의 아버지들, 國父(국부).
the Civil War 내란〈미국 남북전쟁〉. crisis 위기. narrative 이야기.
peril 위험,危難(위난).

B. 구문
- As great as Moses was=Great as Moses was=Though Moses was great
ex. Girl as she was=Though she was a girl.

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Plight of the Pilgrims
The Moses story opens in the 13th century B.C.E. with the Israelites enslaved in Egypt. After the pharaoh orders the slaughter of all Israelite male babies, Moses is floated down the Nile, picked up by the pharaoh's daughter and raised in the palace. An adult Moses murders an Egyptian for beating "one of his kinsmen," then flees to the desert, where, later, a voice in a burning bush recruits him to free the Israelites. This moment represents Moses' first leadership test: Will he cling to his unburdened life or attempt to free a people enslaved for centuries?
The plight of the Israelites resonated with the earliest American settlers. For centuries, the Catholic Church had banned the direct reading of Scripture. But the Protestant Reformation, combined with the printing press, brought vernacular Bibles to everyday readers. What Protestants discovered was a narrative that reminded them of their sense of subjugation by the church and appealed to their dreams of a Utopian New World. The Pilgrims stressed this aspect of Moses. When the band of Protestant breakaways left England in 1620, they described themselves as the chosen people fleeing their pharaoh, King James. On the Atlantic, they proclaimed their journey to be as vital as "Moses and the Israelites when they went out of Egypt." And when they got to Cape Cod, they thanked God for letting them pass through their fiery Red Sea.

A. 어휘
plight 苦境(고경). pilgrim 참배자, 순례자. Israelite 유대인.
slaughter 虐殺(학살). kinsmen 동포. flee-fled-fled 도망가다.
recruit 徵兵(징병)하다. represent 상징하다, 의미하다, 나타내다.
cling-clung-clung 매달리다, 집착하다. resonate 反響(반향)하다.
settler 이주민, 식민지 정착자. ban 금지하다. Scripture=Holy Scripture 聖書(성서).
Protestant 신교도. Reformation 개혁. printing press 인쇄기.
vernacular 自國語(자국어), 방언. vernacular Bible 자국어 성경.
narrative 敍述(서술), 담화, 이야기. subjugation 복종, 정복, 진압.
their sense of subjugation by the church 교회가 그들을 정복하고 있다는 느낌.
appeal to 호소하다, 매력이 있다. aspect 상황, 견해, 양상.
band 무리, 一團(일단). breakaways 이탈자들.
chosen people 選民(선민). proclaim 公布(공포)하다, 선언하다.
vital 중요한. fiery 熱火(열화)의. Red Sea 홍해.

B. 구문
- with the Israelites enslaved →when the Israelites are enslaved
→the Israelites being enslaved→the Israelites enslaved
→with the Israelites enslaved〈독립분사구문 부대상황〉