MSUM Library

honors the 2003 promotion/tenure of

Dorothy Suomala

Educational Leadership

Suomala, Karla Rae.  Moses and God in Dialogue: Exodus 32-34 in Post-Biblical Literature.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, 2002.

Dr. Suomala chose this book because:

“I have chosen the Ph.D. dissertation of my daughter, Karla R. Suomala, for the library’s collection in honor of my tenure and promotion.  I was especially intrigued by the rhetorical approach used as part of the research methodology because it relates to my strong interest in literary criticism within my studies leading to Master of Arts degree in English (1968) from MSUM.  Dr. Karla Suomala uses an interdisciplinary approach to review biblical and post-biblical prose dialogues within the Jewish interpretive tradition and dialogues influenced by this tradition (translations, rewritten bible, rabbinic literature, targums).  This approach includes literary analysis of dialogue to understand the discussion of power and influence as these concepts were related to the diverse ancient cultures. “