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It took America's most Bible-quoting President to reunite the country. Called a pharaoh by his opponents, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves after a "vow before God" he invoked the Exodus at Gettysburg. When he died, Lincoln, like Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace, into which he might not pass over."
Lincoln's assassination initiated an even more long-lasting tribute to Moses, the Statue of Liberty, given to America by the French to honor the slain President. The sculptor, Frederic Bartholdi, chose the goddess of liberty as his model, but he enhanced her with two icons from Moses: the nimbus of light around her head and the tablet in her arms, both from the moment Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The message: Freedom comes with law.

Moses and Superman
With the rise of secularism and the declining influence of the Bible in the 20th century, Moses might have melted away as a role model. But something curious happened. He was so identified as a hero of the American Dream that he superseded Scripture and entered the realm of popular culture, from novels to television.

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most Bible-quoting 성경을 가장 많이 인용하는.
pharaoh 파라오(고대 이집트 국왕의 칭호). opponent 반대자, 적대자.
vow 誓約(서약), 맹세. invoke 神의 加護(가호)를 빌다, 축원하다, 간청하다.
the Exodus 출애굽기. lawgiver 법률 제정자. the Jewish lawgiver=Moses
eulogize 讚揚(찬양)하다. touching 감동적인. toil 勞苦(노고).
assassination 암살. initiate 創始(창시)하다. long-lasting 오래 持續(지속)하는.
tribute 讚辭(찬사), 기념품, 朝貢(조공). the Statue of Liberty 자유의 여신상.
slay-slew-slain 죽이다. sculptor 조각가. enhance 늘리다, 강화하다.
icon 像(상), 聖像(성상). nimbus 빛의 구름, 後光(후광).
tablet 銘板(명판). descend 하강하다. Ten Commandments 十誡命(십계명).
secularism 세속주의. melt away 消散(소산)시키다.
identify 同一視(동일시)하다. supersede 의 지위를 빼앗다, 버꾸다, 찬탈하다.
Scripture 聖書(성서). realm 영역. popular culture 대중문화.

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Superman was modeled partly on Moses. The comic-book hero's creators, two bookish Jews from Cleveland named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, drew their character's backstory from the superhero of the Torah. Just as baby Moses is floated down the Nile in a basket to escape annihilation, baby Superman is launched into space in a rocket ship to avoid extinction. Just as Moses is raised in an alien world before being summoned to liberate Israel, Superman is raised in an alien environment before being called to assist humanity
But it was Cecil B. DeMille who turned Moses into a symbol of American power in the Cold War. The 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which in its inflation-adjusted total ranks as the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, opened with DeMille appearing onscreen. "The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God's law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator," he said. "The same battle continues throughout the world today." To drive home his point, DeMille cast mostly Americans as Israelites and Europeans as Egyptians. And in the film's final shot, Charlton Heston adopts the pose of the Statue of Liberty and quotes the line from the third book of Moses Leviticus inscribed on the Liberty Bell: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."

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comic-book 만화. bookish 책을 좋아하는. character 등장인물.
backstory 臺本(대본). the Torah 모세 五書(오서), 율법을 중심으로 한 구약성서.
annihilation 학살. launch 발사하다. extinction 멸종, 死滅(사멸), 消滅(소멸).
alien 외국의, 지구 밖의. alien world 외부 세계. summon 소환하다.
humanity 인류. epic 敍事詩(서사시). The Ten Commandments ”. 영화 “十戒”(십계).
inflation-adjusted total 인플레를 조정한 총액. grossing 총수익을 올리는.
Cecil B. DeMille “十戒”(십계)의 감독. rule 통치하다. whim 변덕.
dictator 독재자. drive home 잘 인식시키다, 철저히 납득시키다.
cast 配役(배역)하다. adopt 採擇(채택)하다. pose 포즈, 자세.
Leviticus 레위記(기). inscribe 새기다, 비석에 적다. proclaim 선언하다.
inhabitant 주민.