The empire is left to grieve over its days of not caring and its gods of order and its politics of injustice, which are all now ended. Criticism has reached its goal. The alternative consciousness wrought by Moses also provides a model for energizing. Moses and this narrative create the sense of new realities that can be trusted and relied upon just when the old realities had left us hopeless. It is the task of the prophet to bring to expression the new realities against the