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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... Lord saw that he turned aside to see , God called unto him out of the midst of the bush , and said , Moses , Moses . And he said , Here am I. And he said , Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet , for the place ...
... Lord , the repairs suggesting that the priest had found a 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 ...
... Lord had commanded him , and took in his hand the two tables of stone . . . . And the Lord said unto Moses , Write thou these words : for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel . And he was there ...
... Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words , but saw no similitude , only ye heard a voice . ( Deut . 4:12 ) When your eyes behold a king in his beauty , When they contemplate the land round about ...
... Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness , " Moses says ( Deut . 9 : 7 ) ; " And remember that thou wast a servant in ... Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb . Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant , but with us ...
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 |