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. |
From inside the book
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... Joseph to Joshua 141 7. Sojourner in Midian 153 8. Delivering Justice : The Prehistory of Mosaic Intervention 9. " Thus I Am to Be Remembered " : Sinai and the Name 165 174 10. Prophet unto Pharaoh 189 11. The Burden of Egypt 208 12 ...
... Joseph the plot - maker compels him to disown or retire from his Pharaonic status in relation to the more truly Pharaonic status of the Almighty . But both in Pharaoh's Egypt and in the matter of Joseph's manipulation of his Leahite ...
... Joseph Smith's translation from them had been made . Such an " author " thus denies his own originality for the sake of the more compelling one of the authority to which he defers . The authors who have constructed the story of what God ...
... Joseph the provider , and then he was no longer alive to remember Moses the homicide . Then the time is at hand , when God remembers what Pharaoh , being dead , has necessarily forgotten . God remembers Israel down in the " iron furnace ...
... Joseph narrative at the end of Genesis intervenes between the patriarchal and the Mosaic narratives . Like the Joseph story in 21 "The Voice of the Words": The Moses of Deuteronomy.
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 |