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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... king apt to receive such a book . " When the king had heard the words of the book of the law . . . he rent his clothes " ( 2 Kings 22:11 ) . The king was mortified , like St. Paul : " I had not known sin , but by the law . . . when the ...
... Kings 22 who reenacts even as he transmits the story of the loss and recovery of a Mosaic revelation . Or from that ... king , and thereafter re - inscribed by Baruch . Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah , The Face of Moses 11.
... king who succeeded Josiah . Jeremiah might not have been closely involved in the Josianic revolution , and Josiah's high priest Hilkiah— whose scribe Shaphan brought the revolution's deuteronomistic program before the king ( 2 Kings 22 ...
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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 |