Like Unto Moses: The Constituting of an InterruptionIndiana University Press, 1995 M05 22 - 416 pages "This exhaustive and important study of the meaning of Moses in the Bible demonstrates conclusively 'the Mosaicization of the canon'... Nohrnberg possesses a remarkable typological imagination. No summary can do justice to the sheer brilliance of the congruities and disparities he discovers on every page." -- Journal of Religion "LIKE UNTO MOSES proposes a series of challenging perspectives on theprocess of canon-formation in the Bible. James Nohrnberg's ability totrace connections among different elements of the biblical corpus isunflaggingly resourceful, sometimes provocative, and often deeplyinstructive." -- Robert Alter "... an insightful study of the traditions of Moses in the Bible." -- Choice "This is a formidably argued, large book.... It is also certainly the most sophisticated book on Moses and one of the most sophisticated readings of the Bible which I have ever had the pleasure of reading.... I think it is a brilliant achievement and would recommend it to every reader of the Bible." -- R. P. Carroll, The Society for Old Testament Study Book List The Moses of the Bible is a veiled figure who exists both inside and outside the text which describes and defines him. "Moses" is a creation of Israelite literary and scriptural tradition, an ideological construct, a reinvented memory, a projection of what Israel wished to see in Moses. Nohrnberg examines the texts of "Moses" for their representation of the tradition's self-doubt and its revisionary, "deuteronomic" content. |
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... Abraham , the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob . And Moses hid his face ; ... ( Exod . 3 : 4-6 , AV ) Then Pharaoh said to him , " Get away from me ; take heed to yourself ; never see my face again ; for in the day you see my face ...
... Abraham is , by an audience that uses traditional stories to establish its identity . Moses is necessarily received more as a prophet is , on the authority he obtains by invoking his call from Yahweh : " And Aaron spake all the words ...
... the promulgation of Moses as the patron saint of a scribal - priestly cor- poration in Israel . Where Abraham's service to Israel stems from the keeping of the seed of his brother or grandfather Nahor 10 The Canonization of Moses.
... Abraham is merely not to doubt that one has antecedents ; for Abraham , to believe in God was required to believe that he , Abraham , would have descendants . Placed between those who call Abraham their father and those who will call ...
... Abraham , when he remembered Abraham's nephew Lot inside of Sodom ( Gen. 19:29 ) —for the smoke of Sodom " went up as the smoke of a furnace " ( Gen. 19:28 ) . In the exodus God " remembered his holy promise , and Abraham his servant ...
Contents
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The Text of the | 43 |
Moralia in Exodum | 133 |
Sojourner in Midian | 153 |
The Prehistory of Mosaic Intervention | 165 |
Sinai and the Name | 174 |
Prophet unto Pharaoh | 189 |
The Burden of Egypt | 208 |
The Exodus and the Numbering | 241 |
The Exodus and the Visiting | 250 |
Allegories of Scripture | 267 |
The Golden Calf and the History of the Priestly | 307 |
Supplementary Originals | 325 |
Notes | 347 |
General Index | 377 |
Scriptural Index | 391 |