Abstract
This paper will examine two passages from Acts to demonstrate that Luke has reconstructed the figure of Moses in an attempt to describe the relation of earliest Christianity to the people of Israel and the scriptural tradition. In Acts 3, Luke reconfigures the words of Moses in Deuteronomy to present Moses as saying that those who do not listen to Jesus are cut off from Israel, and in Acts 7, Luke reshapes the Exodus narrative to present Moses as a prophet rejected by his own people. Together, these two creative moves divide Moses both from his contemporary Israelites and from